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Libra Esoterica

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, NEW, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Content type: Fiction

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Call me Ishmael. Chiamatemi Ismaele. CALL me Ishmael.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Epic literature” and “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Epic literature” in the subject metadata and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

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  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.

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2018Standard EbooksEnglishPublic

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  • Open Library reports 1116 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL102749W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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