About This Edition

This is a free digital reading experience for Herman Melville's 1851 masterpiece, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. The full text is parsed from a Project Gutenberg plain-text edition, with paragraph structure preserved and chapters individually navigable.

The reader saves your chapter position between visits so you can pick up where you left off. Multiple reading modes (light, sepia, dark), adjustable font sizes, paragraph bookmarks, full-text search, and keyboard shortcuts are all included.

All 135 chapters plus the Epilogue are available, faithfully reproduced from the public domain source text.