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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
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"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel....
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Excellent, EXCELLENT reading!
- By Jessica on 02-18-09
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-26-04
- Language: English
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Moby-Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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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....
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I Had No Idea Melville Was So Funny
- By Dave on 05-09-12
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Moby-Dick
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-27-08
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
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The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship....
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Gripping despite the minutiae
- By Sarah C on 06-06-08
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-29-02
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Lee Winfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Herman Melville’s novel The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) is a comedy of masquerades and a blend of allegory, cultural satire, and metaphysics. A confidence man who sneaks on board a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day, and sets out to defraud his fellow passengers....
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Eye Opening - Great Voice
- By Anonymous User on 06-05-20
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
- Narrated by: Lee Winfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-16-20
- Language: English
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Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
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Pierre Glendinning is the 19-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York. Engaged to the blonde Lucy Tartan in a match approved by his domineering mother....
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A rare treat for Melville fans
- By Anonymous User on 07-21-17
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Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 05-16-16
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
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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....
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One of the best audiobooks ever made
- By John Mark P Foster on 02-05-19
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 21 hrs and 51 mins
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Ishmael, a sailor looking for his next adventure, and his friend who happens to be a former prince, sign up to join a whaling ship in Nantucket....
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Wow!
- By Bluestramp on 07-04-17
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 21 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-24-16
- Language: English
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The Piazza Tales (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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With disparate settings such as a Massachusetts farmhouse and the strange volcanic clime of the Enchanted Isles, this six-story anthology features some of Herman Melville’s most exceptional works....
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A Melville sampler
- By Tad Davis on 08-14-19
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The Piazza Tales (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-27-18
- 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....
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Stewart Wills
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-17-22
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Foretopman
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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It's 1791. Friendly, handsome, and popular Billy Budd is a sailor on board the British warship HMS Indomitable....
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Poor quality
- By Turner on 04-12-07
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Billy Budd, Foretopman
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
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In the dark depths of the bottomless sea dwells a white demon, taking shape as the Leviathan known as Moby Dick....
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Can't argue with a classic
- By MARK on 09-23-14
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-17-14
- Language: English
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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...
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A LIFELIKE DRAMATIZATION
- By Mary Burnight on 09-15-23
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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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Alison Larkin Presents: Moby Dick and Two Poems by Herman Melville
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Jonathan Epstein
- Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
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Melville’s epic tale of one man versus a great white whale will delight Melville devotees as well as those who have yet to sail on this adventure in this mesmerizing new recording read by Jonathan Epstein....
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Absolutely outstanding
- By Mary Katherine Worth on 03-05-21
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Alison Larkin Presents: Moby Dick and Two Poems by Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Jonathan Epstein
- Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-12-21
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Duncan Carse
- Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins
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This is the incredible story of the crazed captain Ahab who, consumed by his desire for revenge, drives his crew to scour the oceans of the world for the fearsome white whale, Moby Dick....
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THANK YOU...
- By JAY on 12-05-10
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Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Duncan Carse
- Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-13-09
- Language: English
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Typee
- A Peep at Polynesian Life
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Herman Melville’s first novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, is a fictionalized account of his time in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, and it was his most popular work during his lifetime....
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I think I'm going like Melville.
- By Lindsey Hooper on 12-11-23
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Typee
- A Peep at Polynesian Life
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-22-22
- Language: English
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Typee
- A Peep at Polynesian Life
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Herman Melville is one of the greatest figures in literary history. His classic Moby Dick is generally considered the finest novel ever written by an American. Yet in Melville’s day, Typee was a far more popular book....
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Peeping Typee is Tapu; Reading Typee is Noa!
- By Darwin8u on 04-21-14
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Typee
- A Peep at Polynesian Life
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-13-11
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Sailor
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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Written some 40 years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil....
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A good reading of a classic story
- By Johnny on 06-11-07
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Billy Budd, Sailor
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-26-04
- Language: English
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Moby Dick (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
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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....
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This is the one!
- By Anonymous User on 11-14-18
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Moby Dick (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-17-18
- Language: English
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Omoo
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo....
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See Melville's Fiction Genius Pushing Hard
- By Darwin8u on 05-16-14
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Omoo
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-31-10
- Language: English
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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....
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Surprisingly engrossing!
- By Charlotte Ruth on 05-07-22
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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: 03-16-22
- Language: English
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