Cover art for Moby-Dick: a white whale's tail rising from a night sea

Classic Reading Adventure · Herman Melville In progress

Moby-Dick

Complete reading, in progress · 2 of 135 chapters so far

“Call me Ishmael.” The hunt for the white whale, from New Bedford to the far Pacific.

A restless young man signs on to a whaling ship out of Nantucket, and finds himself under the command of Captain Ahab, who has sworn to hunt down the white whale that took his leg. Herman Melville’s great American novel was published in 1851. It is read here in full, chapter by chapter, with new chapters added as they’re recorded.

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