Moby Dick
- 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.
- “Epic literature”· via Open Library
- “Tales”· via Open Library
- “Epic literature”· in subject
- “Tales”· in subject
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.
- “Animism”· via Open Library
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
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Editions
Open Library reports 1,116 editions; 1 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Open Library record | 2018 | Standard Ebooks | English | — | Public |
Subjects
- History
- Fiction
- psychology
- Literature
- Drama
- General
- Fiction, general
- Pictorial works
- epic literature
- Symbolism
- Human-animal relationships
- Romans, nouvelles
- Classic Literature
- Adventure and adventurers, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- Translations into French
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Allegories
- Illustrations
- Poetry (poetic works by one author)
- Action & Adventure
- Revenge
- Psychological fiction
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Fiction, psychological
- Ficción
- Open Library Staff Picks
- open_syllabus_project
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Sailors
- Readers (Primary)
- Fiction, fantasy, epic
- Shipwrecks
- Reading Level-Grade 11
- Fate and fatalism
- Reading Level-Grade 12
- Drama (dramatic works by one author)
- Reading Level-Grade 10
- Reading Level-Grade 9
- Sea stories
Identifiers & provenance
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- Open Library work
- Internet Archive
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- Open LibraryOL102749W (opens in a new tab)
Cataloging notes
- 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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