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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.

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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.

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