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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)£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...

Moby Dick written by Herman Meville performed by Frank Muller on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN: 9781428108332
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Classic World
Duration: 1260 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Herman Meville
Performer 1: Frank Muller

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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.

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D-Day Despatches written by BBC Radio Archive performed by Robin Duff, Chester Wilmot, Colin Wills and Richard Dimbleby on CD (Abridged)£9.99

This programme focuses on the largest sea-borne invasion in modern history and one of the world's most tightly kept secrets. It brings together despatches from the BBC War Correspondents who brought up-to-the-minute, graphic descriptions of the events to the listening public. This is a unique collection, a chance to hear history in the making: the day and the hour of D-Day June 1944.