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Moby Dick (Dramatized)
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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A splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage. The challenge of a man against the wonders of nature's ocean, of a man against his own weakness and strengths, and of a man against a demon, or perhaps his God, as he searches for his nemesis, the great white whale.
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Moby Dick (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-02-01
- Language: English
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Billy Budd
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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On one level...Melville’s tale is an historical adventure telling the story of life aboard ship shortly after the mutiny at Spithead in 1797. Billy is taken from a homeward bound merchantman to serve on the ‘Seventy Four’ HMS Indomitable. He falls foul of Claggart, the ‘Master at Arms’, and the final confrontation results in death. Billy becomes an unwilling martyr - what passes for justice must be implemented because of the rebellious climate of the time.
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Riveting Tale of Naval Life
- By Nick Thompson on 09-05-23
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Billy Budd
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 21-06-11
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Stewart Wills
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
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A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab’s ship and severed his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author’s death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the 20th century.
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Stewart Wills
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-12-22
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Jeff Moon, Ron Altman, Marty Krz, and others
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
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Moby Dick, which has been considered the great American novel, was first published in 1851. For material, Melville drew on his experience on whaling ships between 1841 and 1844, the sinking of the whaling vessel Essex in 1820, and extensive perusal of literature on whaling and many other subjects.
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Jeff Moon, Ron Altman, Marty Krz, Adam Skousen, Curt Bonnem, John Burlinson, Joan DuKore
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 07-06-22
- Language: English
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Herman Melville's Classic: Moby Dick
- With a Historical Introduction
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Brianna Fernandez
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
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The book revolves around the hunt for the giant white sperm whale called Moby Dick. During the previous hunt, captain Ahab had his leg bitten off at the knee. He is determined to catch Moby Dick this time. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest for Moby Dick.
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Herman Melville's Classic: Moby Dick
- With a Historical Introduction
- Narrated by: Brianna Fernandez
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Burt Reynolds
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Herman Melville's high-seas adventure of whaling lore and legend is told through the eyes of Ishmael, a sailor aboard the ship Pequod. Under the command of the relentless madman Captain Ahab, whose sole quest is to hunt down and kill the whale who took his leg, Moby Dick is the tale of an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Burt Reynolds
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-02-23
- Language: English
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Benito Cereno
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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Captain Delano is approached on the open sea by a battered-looking ship led by Captain Benito Cereno. Cereno, always accompanied by his personal slave, Babo, explains that his crew was transporting a group of slaves from Africa when their ship was caught and damaged in severe weather. He is polite but always timid and requests supplies for his ship's remaining journey. Captain Delano agrees to help but begins to notice the strange social interactions and atmosphere of Cereno's crew and the slaves.
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Benito Cereno
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-07-16
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Bob Sessions
- Length: 50 mins
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Captain Ahab, stomps around his ship on a peg leg that was caused by a huge whale called Moby Dick. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that it becomes his sole reason for living. He is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick.
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Mislead
- By Summyyah on 28-01-10
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Bob Sessions
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 31-10-08
- Language: English
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Redburn
- His First Voyage
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Bryan Godwin
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Wellingborough Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever imagined. Mocked by the crew on board the Highlander for his weakness and bullied by the vicious and merciless sailor Jackson, Wellingborough must struggle to endure the long journey from New York to Liverpool.
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Redburn
- His First Voyage
- Narrated by: Bryan Godwin
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-05-23
- Language: English
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
- By: Herman Melville
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Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.Inspired by true events, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a work of astonishing psychological depth.It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature.'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...'
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White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-Of-War
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Rob Vlock
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
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A deeply influential novel from one of America's greatest authors, White-Jacket presents a view of life aboard a 19th-century navy ship that is equal parts humorous and sobering. Published a year before his masterpiece Moby-Dick, White-Jacket is based on Herman Melville's own experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844.
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Exceptionally written, well performed.
- By Luke on 14-01-24
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White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-Of-War
- Narrated by: Rob Vlock
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 16-03-22
- Language: English
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The Piazza Tales
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Mark Owen, Pete Cross, Michael Lackey
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Written in seclusion following the intense negative public reaction to the publication of his novel Pierre, The Piazza Tales is Herman Melville's accessible and entertaining collection of short stories and novellas concerning love, labor, and loss. The collection includes his three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction: the short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and the novellas Benito Cereno and The Encantadas.
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The Piazza Tales
- Narrated by: Mark Owen, Pete Cross, Michael Lackey
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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Moby Dick in 101 Pages
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Teresa Jenning
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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When Herman Melville finished Moby Dick, he wrote a letter to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne and said: "I have written a wicked book and feel spotless as the lamb." Unfortunately, very few people actually finish reading this 'wicked' book. One early critic said: "Melville's book can sink a ship with greater force than any whale that I know of." Moby Dick, as originally written, is just plain heavy, difficult to read from cover to cover.
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Moby Dick in 101 Pages
- Narrated by: Teresa Jenning
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-08-21
- Language: English
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Moby Dick or The Whale
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Hayward Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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The sailor Ishmael gets himself hired on the "Pequod" for a whaling voyage, and tells the story of an astounding journey and of the obsessed Captain...
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Moby Dick or The Whale
- Narrated by: Hayward Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 18-03-13
- Language: English
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Die großen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and others
- Narrated by: Dána M. Deverny, Werner Wilkening, Ingolf Kloss
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Herman Melville: "Bartleby", Edgar Allan Poe: "Das Manuskript in der Flasche", Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Rappaccinis Tochter", Mark Twain: "Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note", Edgar Allan Poe: "Hopp-Frosch" und F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Der Gast in Zimmer Neunzehn". In der Weltliteratur haben amerikanische Autoren und ihre Werke schon immer einen besonderen Rang eingenommen. Berühmte Namen wie Melville, Fitzgerald, Twain, Poe - sie alle beeinflussten die Literaturgeschichte und wurden so zu den großen Legenden in der fantastischen Welt der Bücher.
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Die großen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur
- Narrated by: Dána M. Deverny, Werner Wilkening, Ingolf Kloss
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: German
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Eberhard Krug, Peter Schiff, Rolf Marnitz, and others
- Length: 51 mins
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Die Jagd nach dem weißen Wal wird für Kapitän Ahab zu einer Lebensaufgabe und auch zu einem aufregenden Abenteuer auf Leben und Tod. Er ist besessen von einem einzigen Gedanken: Er will Rache üben an seinem Todfeind, Moby Dick, dem riesigen weißen Wal, der ihn zum Krüppel gemacht hat. Mit seinem Walfänger durchsegelt er die sieben Weltmeere.
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Eberhard Krug, Peter Schiff, Rolf Marnitz, Klaus Jespen, Heinz Rabe, Hans Mahlau
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 01-03-19
- Language: German
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Rounding Cape Horn
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Ant Richards
- Length: 25 mins
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Herman Melville August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.
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Rounding Cape Horn
- Narrated by: Ant Richards
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 22-01-23
- Language: English
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to".
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 15-03-17
- Language: English
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Moby Dick (Portuguese edition)
- By: Herman Melville, Monteiro Lobato - tradução
- Narrated by: Sidney Ferreira
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Para sair da monotonia, o professor rural Ismael decide descobrir os mistérios das baleias. Quando ele encontra o arpoador Queequeg, eles partem juntos para a ilha de Nantucket em busca de trabalho no mercado de caça às baleias. Lá, eles embarcam com tripulantes de diversas nacionalidades no baleeiro Pequod para uma viagem de três anos aos mares do sul. Mal sabe ele que o sombrio capitão Ahab está obcecado por encontrar a fera responsável por seus ferimentos e que nenhum arpoador jamais conseguiu abater: a temível Moby Dick.
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Versão resumida. Excelente desempenho.
- By Jo�o Palmeira on 31-01-23
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Moby Dick (Portuguese edition)
- Narrated by: Sidney Ferreira
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-11-21
- Language: Portuguese
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The Piazza
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Mark Owen
- Length: 37 mins
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Written as an introductory story to The Piazza Tales, the protagonist of The Piazza idealizes a radiant spot on the mountain that he looks upon from his piazza. Traveling to the spot he realizes it is a house, occupied by the unhappy girl Marianna, who longs to see the lucky individual who lives in the white house she looks upon from her window. The narrator realizes he has been the object of a fantasy like his own, and leaves thinking how all idealism is an illusion.
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The Piazza
- Narrated by: Mark Owen
- Length: 37 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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