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Moby Dick or The Whale

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Author(s):Herman Melville
Publisher(s): Richard Bentley
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Year Published: 1851
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Fiction - novel
Nature – Mammals
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 640
OCLC: 7390807087

Description

Moby Dick or The Whale has a good claim to the title of The Great American Novel. Based on the story of the Essex, whaler, destroyed by a whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, Melville draws on his own experiences as a seaman. Read online at Hathitrust.

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1922
Moby Dick or The White Whale
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)

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