Herman Melville

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab....

"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel....

Despite being published in 1851, Moby Dick appears at number 17 in The Guardian’s ‘The 100 best novels written in English’; a testament to its continued popularity....

The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship....

Ishmael embarks on his adventure and meets Queequeg along the way; instantly forming a close bond....

Moby-Dick is widely considered to be the Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature....

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....

Ignoring prophecies of doom, the seafarer Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling expedition that is an obsession for the ship's captain, Ahab. Once maimed by the White Whale, Moby Dick, Ahab has set out on a voyage of revenge....

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....

Herman Melville’s tale of corporate discontent, Bartleby, the Scrivener, tells the story of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in the Wall Street area of New York City....

Captain Ahab dismisses the crew’s catch when he confirms that it isn’t Moby Dick and an encounter with another ship makes him even more determined.... 

The Pequod sets sail with Ishmael and Queequeg on board. Captain Ahab sets out his plan to seek revenge....

The crew are united in Captain Ahab’s plan to find and kill Moby Dick whilst a storm rages against the ship sending some of the crew delirious....

Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society....

A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators....

The hunt leads the crew to a pod of Whales which results in tragedy.... 

The Pequod’s voyage reaches the Java sea as Captain Ahab continues his hunt for Moby Dick.... 

The grim reality of whaling hits Ishmael hard....

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas of the early America’s....

Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography.....