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or, The Whale Moby Dick The Whale Moby Dick by Herman Melville The White Whale Statements instance of literary work 0 references inception 1850 1 reference reference URL https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/tracking-the-versions-moby-dick language of work or name English title Tracking the versions of Moby–Dick (English) retrieved 31 December 2023 image Moby-Dick FE title page.jpg 840 × 1,380; 103 KB 0 references title Moby Dick (English) 1 reference reference URL https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Moby_Dick title Moby Dick | Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki | Fandom (English) retrieved 4 May 2022 Moby-Dick (English) 1 reference reference URL https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Moby_Dick title Moby Dick | Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki | Fandom (English) retrieved 4 May 2022 subtitle or, The Whale (English) 0 references named after Moby Dick applies to name of subject Moby-Dick (English) applies to name of object Moby Dick (English) 0 references derivative work Moby Dick 1 reference inferred from Moby Dick Moby Dick publication date 1956 adapted by John Huston 1 reference inferred from Moby Dick Moby Dick 1 reference inferred from Moby Dick Moby Dick—Rehearsed 1 reference inferred from Moby Dick—Rehearsed Moby-Dick 0 references The Sea Beast 0 references Moby Dick 0 references Moby Dick 0 references Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick 0 references Moby Dick 0 references Moby Dick 0 references main subject whaling 0 references form of creative work novel 0 references genre nautical fiction 0 references adventure fiction 0 references has edition or translation Moby-Dick language of work or name English publication date 1851 place of publication New York City 0 references Moby-Dick; or, the Whale language of work or name English publication date 1851 place of publication London 0 references Moby Dick language of work or name French publication date 1931 0 references Q70907086 language of work or name Korean 0 references Moby-Dick language of work or name Esperanto publication date 2001 0 references Moby Dick language of work or name Italian publication date 1932 0 references Moby Dick; Or, The Whale language of work or name English publication date 2001 0 references Q131417418 publication date 1981 language of work or name Hebrew 0 references Q131417436 publication date 1952 language of work or name Hebrew 0 references Q123965738 1 reference inferred from Q123965738 Moby-Dick distribution format ebook language of work or name English 0 references Moby-Dick publication date 24 November 2015 publisher Penguin Classics distribution format hardcover language of work or name English 0 references Moby-Dick publication date 1 March 1981 distribution format paperback language of work or name English 0 references author Herman Melville 5 references imported from Wikimedia project French Wikipedia imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia imported from Wikimedia project Portuguese Wikipedia imported from Wikimedia project Italian Wikipedia imported from Wikimedia project Japanese Wikipedia publication date 18 October 1851Gregorian place of publication London 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia 14 November 1851Gregorian place of publication New York City 0 references country of origin United States 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia language of work or name English 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Japanese Wikipedia narrator Ishmael 0 references inspired by shipwrecking has cause sperm whale object of occurrence Essex 1 reference reference URL https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-life-horror-that-inspired-moby-dick-17576/ characters Captain Ahab 1 reference stated in Personality Database Personality Database work ID 599 retrieved 4 January 2024 Moby Dick 1 reference stated in Personality Database Personality Database work ID 599 retrieved 4 January 2024 Ishmael 1 reference stated in Personality Database Personality Database work ID 599 retrieved 4 January 2024 Queequeg 1 reference stated in Personality Database Personality Database work ID 599 retrieved 4 January 2024 Father Mapple 0 references Starbuck 0 references first line Call me Ishmael. (English) literal translation Nennt mich Ishmael. (German) Recite mi Ishmael (Slovenian) 1 reference reference URL http://americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp last line It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan. (English) 0 references number of parts of this work 135 chapter 0 references 1 epilogue 0 references Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions) 813.3 has edition or translation DDC 23 1 reference stated in Classify OCLC work ID (obsolete) 2453386250 retrieved 26 July 2021 Library of Congress Classification (works and editions) PS2384 1 reference stated in Classify OCLC work ID (obsolete) 2453386250 retrieved 26 July 2021 described by source The Encyclopedia Americana statement is subject of Moby Dick 0 references copyright status public domain applies to jurisdiction countries with 100 years pma or shorter determination method or standard 100 years or more after author(s) death 0 references public domain applies to jurisdiction United States determination method or standard published more than 95 years ago 0 references on focus list of Wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 point in time 31 October 2022 0 references set in environment ship 0 references epigraph While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true. (English) object stated in reference as Hackluyt 0 references WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted. (English) object stated in reference as Webster’s Dictionary quotes work Webster's Dictionary 0 references WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow. (English) object stated in reference as Richardson’s Dictionary 0 references חו, Hebrew. ϰητος, Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHŒL, Anglo-Saxon. HVALT, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HVALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Spanish. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Fegee. PEHEE-NUEE-NUEE, Erromangoan. (multiple languages) object stated in reference as no value 0 references And God created great whales. (English) object stated in reference as Genesis quotes work Book of Genesis 0 references Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary. (English) object stated in reference as Job quotes work Book of Job 0 references Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. (English) object stated in reference as Jonah quotes work Book of Jonah 0 references There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein. (English) object stated in reference as Psalms quotes work Psalms 0 references In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (English) object stated in reference as Isaiah quotes work Isaiah 0 references And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this monster’s mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all incontinently that foul great swallow of his, and perisheth in the bottomless gulf of his paunch. (English) object stated in reference as Holland’s Plutarch’s Morals quotes work Moralia 0 references The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land. (English) object stated in reference as Holland’s Pliny 0 references Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size.... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam. (English) object stated in reference as Tooke’s Lucian. “The True History.” quotes work A True Story 0 references He visited this country also with a view of catching horse-whales, which had bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he brought some to the king.... The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He said that he was one of six who had killed sixty in two days. (English) object stated in reference as Other or Other’s verbal narrative taken down from his mouth by King Alfred, A.D. 890. 0 references And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps. (English) object stated in reference as MONTAIGNE. —Apology for Raimond Sebond 0 references Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job. (English) object stated in reference as Rabelais quotes work The Fourth Book 0 references This whale’s liver was two cartloads. (English) object stated in reference as Stowe’s Annals 0 references The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan. (English) object stated in reference as Lord Bacon’s Version of the Psalms 0 references Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale. (English) object stated in reference as Ibid. “History of Life and Death.” 0 references The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise. (English) object stated in reference as King Henry quotes work Henry IV, Part 1 0 references Very like a whale. (English) object stated in reference as Hamlet quotes work Hamlet 0 references Which to secure, no skill of leach’s art <br> Mote him availle, but to returne againe <br> To his wound’s worker, that with lowly dart, <br> Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine, <br> Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro’ the maine. (English) object stated in reference as The Fairie Queen quotes work The Faerie Queene 0 references Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil. (English) object stated in reference as Sir William Davenant. Preface to Gondibert quotes work Gondibert 0 references What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit. (English) objec…