Moby Dick By Herman Melville

Moby Dick by Herman Melville By: Herman Melville (1819-1891) Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel. First Page: MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE By Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY. (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) The pale Usher threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true." HACKLUYT "WHALE.... Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY "WHALE.... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. WALLEN; A.S. WALW IAN, to roll, to wallow." RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LATIN. WHOEL, ANGLO SAXON... Continue reading book >> Audiobook downloads MP3 Download Download mp3 files for each chapter of this book in one zip file (709.5MB) iTunes Podcast Complete download in iTunes under podcasts (24:37:50 long) iPod/iPhone M4b Audiobook (Right click > Save link as...) Audio Book File in .m4b format Sections: 1 2 3 4 5 RSS Feed Listen from your RSS reader (24:37:50 long) eBook Downloads ePUB eBook • iBooks for iPhone and iPad • Nook • Sony Reader Kindle eBook • Mobi file format for Kindle Read eBook • Load eBook in browser Text File eBook • Computers • Windows • Mac Plucker eBook • PDAs • Palm Pilot • Pocket PC

By: Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel.

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MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE By Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY. (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) The pale Usher threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true." HACKLUYT "WHALE.... Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY "WHALE.... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. WALLEN; A.S. WALW IAN, to roll, to wallow." RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LATIN. WHOEL, ANGLO SAXON... Continue reading book >>

Audiobook downloads
MP3 Download Download mp3 files for each chapter of this book in one zip file (709.5MB)
iTunes Podcast Complete download in iTunes under podcasts (24:37:50 long)
iPod/iPhone M4b Audiobook (Right click > Save link as...) Audio Book File in .m4b format Sections: 1 2 3 4 5
RSS Feed Listen from your RSS reader (24:37:50 long)

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Read eBook • Load eBook in browser	Text File eBook • Computers • Windows • Mac
Plucker eBook • PDAs • Palm Pilot • Pocket PC