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
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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Animal Farm by George OrwellOliver Twist by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
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Herman Melville
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the science ...more
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

David Lodge
Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor and smuggled into a book addressed to the most puritanical reading public the world has ever known a chapter on the whale’s foreskin and got away with it.
David Lodge, Changing Places

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