Moby Dick, or the Whale

by Herman MELVILLE (1819 - 1891)

Chapter 032

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel. (Summary by Stewart Wills)


Listen next episodes of Moby Dick, or the Whale:
Chapter 033-035 , Chapter 036-040 , Chapter 041 , Chapter 042-044 , Chapter 045-047 , Chapter 048-050 , Chapter 051-053 , Chapter 054 , Chapter 055-058 , Chapter 059-063 , Chapter 064-067 , Chapter 068-071 , Chapter 072-073 , Chapter 074-077 , Chapter 078-080 , Chapter 081-082 , Chapter 083-086 , Chapter 087-088 , Chapter 089-091 , Chapter 092-096 , Chapter 097-100 , Chapter 101-104 , Chapter 105-108 , Chapter 109-113 , Chapter 114-118 , Chapter 119-123 , Chapter 124-127 , Chapter 128-132 , Chapter 133 , Chapter 134 , Chapter 135 and Epilogue