Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Sep 2021 · Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

About this ebook

Moby Dick is novel authored by the American Writer Herman Melville (1st August 1819 28th September 1891). He was not only a novelist but a poet as well. Moby Dick is best known work. The story illustrater about the whale world. The detailed and realistic narrations of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil. The story begins with a voyage and the captain, Ahab, of the ship is obsessive by nature. Ahab is still recovering been an encounter with a big whale, Moby Dick. Due to his obsession, he plans to kill the Moby Dick. So on their journey lots of obstacle and hurdles come. Even Ahab receives a prophecy related to his death, but he ignores. The whole story is in the ship and the voyage. How come it all happers? Whether Ahab's obsession got fulfilled ? What happened to their ship who was pollard ? All these query seems interesting as relate to the whole story. pollard tells the full story to fellow Captains after his rescue from the Essex ordeal and to George Bevnet. The voyage is & 92 days in a leaking boat with no food. The Voyage is actually a whaling voyage. The 87-feet long ship is hit by a squall that destroys some part of the ship. The whale smashes head on into the ship. The whale passes underneath the ship begins thrashing of water. The water rushes into the ship. The story ends in an interesting manner. Most adventures story.

About the author

Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819. After his father's death, Melville attempted to support his family by working various jobs, from banking to teaching school. It was his adventures as a seaman in 1845 that inspired Melville to write. On one voyage, he was captured and held for several months. When he returned, friends encouraged Melville to write about his experience. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Wiley and Putnam, 1846) became his first literary success; the continuation of his adventures appeared in his second book, Omoo (Harper & Brothers, 1847).

After ending his seafaring career, Melville read voraciously. In 1847, he married Elizabeth Shaw and moved first to New York and then the Berkshires. He lived near writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, who became a close friend and confidant. Melville penned Mardi and a Voyage Thither, a philosophical allegory, and Redburn: His First Voyage (Harper & Brothers, 1849), a comedy. Although the latter proved a financial success, Melville immediately returned to the symbolic in his next novel, White-Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War (Harper & Brothers, 1850). In 1851, he completed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, or the Whale (Harper & Brothers). Considered by modern scholars to be one of the great American novels, the book was dismissed by Melville's contemporaries and he made little from the effort. The other two novels that today form the core of the Melville canon—Pierre; or the Ambiguities (Harper & Brothers, 1852) and The Confidence Man (Dix, Edwards & Co., 1857)—met a similar fate.