MobyDick by Herman Melville! app for iPhone and iPad


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Entertainment Book
Developer: SmilingMobile Inc.
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 12 Apr 2010
App size: 1.69 Mb

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. It describes the ill-fated voyage of the whaling ship Pequod to find and destroy the eponymous white whale, driven by the obsessive Captain Ahab. The language is highly symbolic and many themes run throughout the work. The narrators reflections, along with complex descriptions of the grueling work of whaling and personalities of his shipmates, are woven into a profound meditation on hubris, providence, nature, society, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness and salvation. Moby-Dick is often considered the epitome of American Romanticism.