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Moby Dick written by Herman Melville performed by F. Murray Abraham, Fritz Weaver, Thomas Gilroy and Oliva Leavanae on Audio CD (Abridged)

Moby Dick written by Herman Melville performed by F. Murray Abraham, Fritz Weaver, Thomas Gilroy and Oliva Leavanae on Audio CD (Abridged)£29.99

Moby-Dick or The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, the work's genre classifications range from late...

Best of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville performed by Bob Sessions and Christopher Timothy on CD (Abridged)

Best of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville performed by Bob Sessions and Christopher Timothy on CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9781904605805
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Classic English
Duration:  300 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Herman Melville
Performer 1:  Bob Sessions
Performer 2:  Christopher Timothy

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"Billy Budd" Billy Budd’s life takes an unexpected turn when he is pressed into service in the Royal Navy at the turn of the nineteenth century. Two recent mutinies and war with Revolutionary France make for tense conditions aboard HMS Bellipotent, and when the popular Billy inexplicably falls afoul of the jealous master-at-arms and commits a rash, though sorely provoked, act, it is up to Captain Vere to administer appropriate justice is read by Christopher Timothy and

"Moby Dick" is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his ‘mighty theme’ – not only the whale but all things sublime – Melville breathes in the world’s great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American is read by Bob Sessions.

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