Moby Dick [20 discs]
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400116010
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Physical Description:
20 audio discs (25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor media, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Audio & eBook"--Container. Disc 1 is a "Multimode CD". In addition to the audio content of the story, it contains the companion eBook text in PDF format that can be accessed for reading by inserting the disc into the CD-ROM drive of a computer. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Norman Dietz. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Whaling Fiction Whales Fiction Mentally ill Fiction Ship captains Fiction Whaling ships Fiction Ahab Captain (Fictitious character) Fiction |
Genre: | Action and adventure fiction. Sea fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library District.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Poplar Bluff - Ridgel Branch | FIC MELVILLE AUDIO (Text)
Memorial: In memory of Herman Corzine. Presented by: Wythia Hefner. [ 3/26/14 @ PBPL ]
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38420101359301 | AUDIOBOOKS | Available | - |
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Summary
Moby Dick
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod , on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, Moby Dick is the tale of the hunt for the elusive, omnipotent, and ultimately mystifying white whale--Moby Dick. On its surface, Moby Dick is a vivid documentary of life aboard a nineteenth-century whaler, a virtual encyclopedia of whales and whaling, replete with facts, legends, and trivia that Herman Melville had gleaned from personal experience and scores of sources. But as the quest for the whale becomes increasingly perilous, the tale works on allegorical levels, likening the whale to human greed, moral consequence, good, evil, and life itself. Who is good? The great white whale who, like Nature, asks nothing but to be left in peace? Or the bold Ahab who, like scientists, explorers, and philosophers, fearlessly probes the mysteries of the universe? Who is evil? The ferocious, man-killing sea monster? Or the revenge-obsessed madman who ignores his own better nature in his quest to kill the beast?