Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel
File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
by Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime....
. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael
Ishmael is the narrator of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by United States author Herman Melville. It is through his eyes and experience that the reader experiences the story of the ship Pequod, and the fight between Ahab and the white whale....
and his voyage on the whaleship
Whaling is the hunting of whales and dates back to at least 4,000 BC. The evolution of traditional Arctic whaling developed with increasing rapidity with early organized fleets in the 17th century; competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the introduction of factory ships along with the concept of whale "har...
Pequod
The Pequod is the fictional 19th century Nantucket whaler that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by United States author Herman Melville....
, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg.
Novel
File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
by Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime....
. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael
Ishmael (Moby-Dick)
Ishmael is the narrator of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by United States author Herman Melville. It is through his eyes and experience that the reader experiences the story of the ship Pequod, and the fight between Ahab and the white whale....
and his voyage on the whaleship
Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales and dates back to at least 4,000 BC. The evolution of traditional Arctic whaling developed with increasing rapidity with early organized fleets in the 17th century; competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the introduction of factory ships along with the concept of whale "har...
Pequod
Pequod (Moby-Dick)
The Pequod is the fictional 19th century Nantucket whaler that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by United States author Herman Melville....
, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg.
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