Moby Dick
A whaling voyage, a chapter on the whiteness of the whale, and one of the great obsessive voices in English.
- Listening time
- about 22 h 30 min
- Length
- 209,694 words
- First published
- 1851
- Public domain
- the author died in 1891
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 1.2 MB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- The Long Haul
Listen in Chorus Reader
Free. Open the app, go to Discover, find the title and tap Get. It narrates on your device in the voice you choose, your own included. View the edition at standardebooks.org.
How it begins.
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. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
Moby Dick · Herman Melville · 1851
- NovaStandardAmerican · female · the free engine0:14
This is the passage the app plays when you tap Play Sample, here in one of the Standard engine’s voices. In the app it is generated on your device, in whichever voice you have picked.
The other edition here
The same book as a plain cleaned text. It reads the same.
On the same shelf: The Long Haul
Hear the whole book.
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