Moby Dick, or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary... read more
Year Published 1851
Word Count 206,052
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 420L
- ATOS Reading Level: 10.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 711
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Science
- Subject Headings
- Fiction | Sea Stories
- Psychological fiction
- Whaling--Fiction
- Sea stories
- Whaling
- Whales
- Whales--Fiction
- Adventure stories
- Fiction | Classics
- Mentally ill--Fiction
- Whaling ships
- Ship captains
- Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction
- Whaling ships--Fiction
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
- Mentally ill
- Ship captains--Fiction
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