Moby-Dick
- Author Herman Melville
- Narrator Anthony Heald
- Publisher Craig Black
- Publish Date 27 January 2009
- Run Time 23 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Classic fiction, Sea stories.
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What to expect
One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man’s fight against a force of nature.
The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a maniacal quest to capture the cunning white whale that robbed him of his leg: Moby-Dick.
Capturing life on the sea with robust realism, Melville details the adventures of the colorful crew aboard the ship as Ahab pursues his crusade of revenge, heedless of all cost. This masterfully symbolic drama of the conflict between man and his fate has a special intensity that listeners will not soon forget.
Critics Review
“The greatest of American novels.”
u201cEven tenth-grade-me could have appreciated the book as read in Anthony Healdu2019s sardonic, Silence of the Lambs intonation. Generally speaking, witty books seem to have the most to gain in audio formu2026particularly when read by great voice artists.u201d
u201cNarrator Anthony Heald not only creates vivid characterizationsu2014Captain Ahabu2019s gruff mania, Starbucku2019s doubtful sensitivity, the prophet Elijahu2019s visionary shakinessu2014he also dramatizes the many moods of the Pequod crew and the mercurial ocean itself. Healdu2019s voice has the range of a piano, and he uses it like a virtuosou2026Healdu2019s voice bristles dryly with humor or sinks with dreadu2014a range necessary to tell this complex story.u201d
u201cAn epic, rewarding, sea-worthy journey awaits you in one of literatureu2019s classic tales.u201d
“A work tantalizingly subversive, and yet somehow if not affirming at least forgiving of the blind destructiveness of human nature and of nature itself.”
“Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab.”
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