Moby Dick (Abridged) - Herman Melville, Marty Ross

Category: Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Adventure Classics Epic moby Sea story Whale

Written by Herman Melville, Marty Ross
Format: M4A
Abridged

First published in 1851, Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.

This is a 7 hour, 15 episode adaptation by Marty Ross.