Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar …
Want to Read $ 0.99"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
If you liked the adventure plot in Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, Tom Quirk, Andrew Delbanco , here is a list of 7 books like this:
1. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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2. Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne
3.88
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more
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- classic literature
- 19th century
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"Meat, ma'am, meat."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss
4.30
Format: 1276 pages, Paperback
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress o… read more
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- classic literature
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"I am a Count, Not a Saint."-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"He who has a partner has a master."-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !"-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
4. A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell
3.87
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more
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- classic literature
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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
5. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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- classics
- american
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6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.92
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more
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"Tom!"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"Company would be a palpable improvement"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
7. The Old Man and the Sea
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a moder… read more
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- american
- adventure
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- classic literature
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"My big fish must be somewhere."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,"-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
8. Crimen y castigo
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Esta novela, una de las mas grandes e imperecederas de la literatura universal, contiene dos de los… read more
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9. Why Read Moby-Dick?
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.75
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject… read more
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- audiobook
- classics
- american
"As Starbuck discovers, simply being a good guy with a positive worldview is not enough to stop a force of nature like Ahab, who feeds on the fears and hatreds in us all."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"This is where Melville is perhaps the most profound in his portrait of Ahab as the demagogue and dictator. In the end, even the fiercest of tyrants is done in, not by his own sad, used-up self, but b…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Ishmael says it best: "For all men tragically great are made so through a certain…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To write timelessly about the here and now, a writer must approach the present indirectly. The story has to be about more than it at first seems. Shakespeare used the historical sources of his plays …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
10. Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more
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"Doctors is all swabs."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"We must go on, because we can't turn back."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
11. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- classics
- literature
- classic literature
- 19th century
- fiction
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
12. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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- american
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
13. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more
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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"He had a dream and it shot him."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
15. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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16. Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
3.79
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You are in every line I have ever read."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
17. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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18. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
19. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
20. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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- novels
- audiobook
"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
21. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
