Moby Dick Audiobook Reading

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Description

A dramatic reading from chapter 1 of Herman Melville's epic Moby Dick. Background audio is original music.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Chapter one Loom ings 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 too little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whatever. I find myself growing grim about the month whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul. Whenever I find myself in voluntarily pausing before coffin warehouses and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet, and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off. Then I account it high time to get to see as soon as I can