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Moby Dick
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romanzo di Herman Melville
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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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- 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.
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- Moby Dick
- topic's main category
- Category:Moby-Dick
- first line
- Call me Ishmael.
- publication date
- 1851-11-14
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- 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
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- 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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Article · Italiano
Moby Dick o La balena (Moby-Dick; or, The Whale) è un romanzo del 1851 scritto da Herman Melville. È considerato un capolavoro della letteratura americana della cosiddetta American Renaissance. La storia segue il viaggio della baleniera Pequod, comandata dal capitano Achab, a caccia di balene e capodogli, e in particolare dell'enorme balena bianca (in realtà un capodoglio) che dà il titolo al romanzo, verso la quale Achab nutre una smisurata sete di vendetta.
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