Listen to Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moby Dick Author: Herman Melville Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 30, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Its famous opening line, 'Call me Ishmael,' dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey.When Melville's father died in 1832, the young man's financial security went too. For a while he turned to school-mastering and clerking, but failed to make a sustainable income. In 1840 he signed up on the whaler, Acushnet, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was just 21. A whaler's life turned out to be both arduous and dangerous, and in 1842, Melville deserted ship. Out of this experience and a wealth of printed sources, Melville crafted his masterpiece.