Book
Moby Dick
- Published
- 1851
- Genre
- Classics
- Publisher
- SALIM
- Pages
- 720
- Words
- 206052
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153747.Moby_Dick_or_the_Whale?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 10.3
- Lexile
- 1150L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 15–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
Collections
Deep Roots Grade · 9Mensa Kids · 9-12TJEd Youth Recommended
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9789871784578
- ISBN-10
- 9871784570
Tags
Adventure-Sea StoriesClassicsDeep RootsMensa KidsRecommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 9-12Thomas Jefferson Education Youth