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Moby Dick or The White Whale
(Moby Dick or The Whale)
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| Author(s): | Herman Melville |
| Illustrator(s): | Mead Schaeffer |
| Publisher(s): | Dodd, Mead & Co. |
| Year Published: | circa 1922 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Adventure American Fiction - Novel Sea Stories |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 540 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 27114470 |
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Moby Dick or The White Whale has a good claim to the title of The Great American Novel. Based on the story of the Essex, whaler, destroyed by a whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, Melville draws on his own experiences as a seaman. Read online at Hathitrust.
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Moby Dick or The Whale (1851)
Moby Dick or The Whale has a good claim to the title of The Great American Novel. Based on the story of the Essex, whaler, destroyed by a whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, Melville draws on his own experiences as a seaman. Read online at Hathitrust.
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