Moby-Dick

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American novel literary work novel

Moby-Dick is Herman Melville’s 1851 epic novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to hunt the white whale, widely regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

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Observed surface forms (13)

Surface form	Occurrences
Moby Dick	9
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale	3
Moby-Dick universe	2
Moby-Dick chapter 26 "Knights and Squires"	1
Moby-Dick, "Stubb Kills a Whale"	1
Moby-Dick, "Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale"	1
Moby-Dick, "Stubb’s Supper"	1
Moby-Dick, "The Pipe"	1
Moby-Dick, "The Quarter-Deck"	1
Moby-Dick, Chapter 48 "The First Lowering"	1
Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851)	1
The Whale	1
the voyage of the Pequod	1

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American novel ⓘ literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ
adaptedAs	film ⓘ opera ⓘ radio drama ⓘ stage play ⓘ television series ⓘ
author	Herman Melville ⓘ
centralConflict	Captain Ahab’s pursuit of the white whale ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
firstEditionFormat	single-volume edition (New York) ⓘ three-volume edition (London) ⓘ
firstPublished	1851 ⓘ
genre	adventure fiction ⓘ epic ⓘ philosophical novel ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ sea story ⓘ tragedy ⓘ
hasAlternateTitle	Moby-Dick ⓘ surface form: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Moby-Dick ⓘ surface form: The Whale
hasCharacter	Captain Ahab ⓘ Fedallah ⓘ Flask ⓘ Ishmael ⓘ Moby-Dick self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Moby Dick Pip ⓘ Queequeg ⓘ Starbuck ⓘ Stubb ⓘ
influenced	20th-century American fiction ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ
literaryMovement	American Romanticism ⓘ
literaryStatus	classic novel ⓘ masterpiece of American literature ⓘ
mainCharacter	Captain Ahab ⓘ Ishmael ⓘ Moby-Dick self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Moby Dick Queequeg ⓘ Starbuck ⓘ
narrator	Ishmael ⓘ
notableFeature	extensive cetology chapters ⓘ mix of narrative and essayistic digressions ⓘ
openingLine	Call me Ishmael. ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
originalPublisher	Harper & Brothers ⓘ Richard Bentley ⓘ
placeOfFirstPublication	United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
publicationYear	1851 ⓘ
setting	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Nantucket ⓘ New Bedford, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: New Bedford Pacific Ocean ⓘ
shipName	the Pequod ⓘ surface form: Pequod
subject	fate ⓘ good and evil ⓘ humanity and nature ⓘ obsession ⓘ revenge ⓘ the sea ⓘ whaling ⓘ
symbol	the Pequod ⓘ the white whale ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting	early 19th century ⓘ

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