Moby Dick


Moby-Dick or, The Whale
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Why Read Moby-Dick?
Moby Dick (Great Illustrated Classics)
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick”
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
The Whale: A Love Story
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
Call Me Ishmael
Melville: His World and Work
The Art of Fielding
Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page
Strangely Enough
Animal Farm by George OrwellOliver Twist by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Matilda's Booklist
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In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Terror by Dan SimmonsAhab’s Rolling Sea by Richard J.  KingBlack Leviathan by Bernd PerpliesRailsea by China Miéville
Moby-Dick Inspired Books
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Herman Melville
“ There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath... ”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Eric Jay Dolin
“ American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the course of feminine fashion by putting the hoop in hooped skirts and giving form to stomachtightening and chest-crushing corsets. Spermaceti, the waxy substance from the heads of sperm whales, produced the brightest- and cleanest-burning candles the world ...more ”
― Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

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