Herman Melville Audio & Video

You may want to read one of the great American novels Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The Moby Dick Big Read project has now completed all 135 chapters of the novel with high quality recordings from great actors and everyday people.

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since.

This is a short story about a lawyer with offices on Wall Street in New York City.

Herman Melville's first book recounts Melville's real life experiences when he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and became a captive of a cannibal island tribe.

The action is set within the claustrophobic confines of a British man-of-war ship in the summer of 1797.

You may want to read one of the great American novels Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The Moby Dick Podcast contains all 135 chapters of the novel as separate podcast episodes.

Captain Ahab is hell-bent on catching the famous gargantuan whale, who cost him one of his legs on a previous voyage.

Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summarily convicted in a drum-head court martial, and hanged.

Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is a classic American short story, a strange tale of a constantly busy copyist whose simple refrain, "I would prefer not to", wreaks havoc on his workplace.

The Nantucket whaling ship, the Pequod, spirals the globe in search of Moby Dick, the mythical white whale of the Southern Oceans...