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‘Moby Dick’ was first published in Britain as 'The Whale' in 1851. It is an extraordinary book, made up of 135 chapters, all written in a variety of styles - from sailors’ slang to biblical prophecy and Shakespearian rant. Ishmael, the narrator, tells of the adventures of Captain Ahab in...

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick invites readers on a thrilling adventure at sea, where Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest for the white whale spirals into a philosophical reflection on obsession, fate, and nature. This book is ideal for lovers of adventure, symbolism, and existential musings on humanity.

Moby Dick d'après Herman Melville, dans une adaptation radio, en version restaurée.Île de Nantucket, Massachusetts, vers 1840. Poussé par un désir fou de grand large, Ismaël embarque comme matelot sur le Pequod, baleinier mené par Achab, capitaine cruel et tyrannique guidé par l’obsession de se venger de Moby Dick, la baleine géante qui lui a arraché la jambe. Hommes et navire s’engagent ainsi dans une traque folle au cœur des océans. À la croisée de l’épopée métaphysique et du récit à huit clos, cette adaptation rythmée par les chants des marins plonge l’auditeur ...

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.orgThis is a Librivox Recording. All Librivox recordings are in the ...

A splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage. The challenge of a man against the wonders of nature's ocean, of a man against his own weakness and strengths, and of a man against a demon, or perhaps his God, as he searches for his nemesis, the great white whale.