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Moby Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · Adventure, Drama & Literary
Call me Ishmael. The story of the whaleship Pequod and her captain Ahab, whose all-consuming hunt for the great white whale Moby Dick becomes a voyage into obsession and fate — the greatest sea-epic ever written.
Inside this edition
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This edition
- Title
- Moby Dick
- Author
- Herman Melville (1819–1891)
- First published
- 1851
- Illustrated plates
- 40 original artworks · 18 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 135 · about 208,250 words
- Reading time
- 13 h 53 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #2701
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