Moby-Dick

Also known as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Moby Dick, The Whale, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The White Whale

Roman von Herman Melville

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Herman Melville's 1851 novel *Moby-Dick* follows a sailor named Ishmael as he recounts Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against the white whale that destroyed his ship and took his leg. Though initially a commercial failure, the book became recognized in the 20th century as one of the great works of American literature.

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Author: Herman Melville
First published: 1851
Editions: 1,116
Subjects: American Sea stories, Mentally ill, Whaling, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Whales, great_books_of_the_western_world, Translations into French, Literature

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Book.name: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Book.image: Moby-Dick FE title page.jpg
Book.border: no
Book.caption: The cover of the first American edition of Moby-Dick, published in November 1851
Book.author: Herman Melville
Book.country: United States
Book.language: English
Book.release_date: October 18, 1851 (United Kingdom)November 14, 1851 (United States)
Book.dewey: 813.3
Book.congress: PZ3.M498 Mo3
Book.wikisource: Moby-Dick (Melville)
Book.pages: 635 (U.S. edition)

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Instance of: literary work
Author: Herman Melville
Genre: adventure fiction
Country of origin: United States
Main subject: whaling
Image: Moby-Dick FE title page.jpg

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epigraph: Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale <br> In his ocean home will be <br> A giant in might, where might is right, <br> And King of the boundless sea.
Commons category: Moby Dick
topic's main category: Category:Moby-Dick
first line: Call me Ishmael.
publication date: 1851-11-14
Commons gallery: Moby-Dick
language of work or name: English language
inspired by: shipwrecking
inception: 1850-00-00
title: Moby-Dick
copyright status: public domain
subtitle: or, The Whale
form of creative work: novel
Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions): 813.3
Library of Congress Classification (works and editions): PS2384
set in environment: ship
number of parts of this work: 1
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
last line: It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

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Moby-Dick; oder: Der Wal (englisch Moby-Dick; or, The Whale) ist ein 1851 in London und New York erschienener Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Herman Melville (1819–1891). Das erzählerische Rückgrat des Romans ist die schicksalhafte Fahrt des Walfangschiffes Pequod, dessen Kapitän Ahab mit blindem Hass den weißen Pottwal Moby Dick jagt, der ihm ein Bein abgerissen hatte. Entlang dieses erzählerischen Fadens, der knapp die Hälfte des Romans ausmacht, reiht Melville zahlreiche philosophische, wissenschaftliche, kunstgeschichtliche und mythologische Exkurse, zu denen noch viele subjektive, mal lyrische, mal auch ironische Betrachtungen des Autors kommen. In diesem Rahmen wird auch die Welt des Walfangs im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert detailreich dargestellt. Melville widmete seinen Roman Moby-Dick dem befreundeten Schriftsteller Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Moby-Dick

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