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Author
Herman Melville
Level
C1
Chapters
135
Length
~213k words
Reading time
~18 h
Translation
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Moby-DickHerman Melville · C1
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DICTIONARY

cherish
verb

TRANSLATION

дорожить, лелеять

to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.

She cherishes the memory of her grandmother.
Она дорожит памятью о своей бабушке.

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The opening

How “Moby-Dick” 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.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily 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 sea as soon as I can.

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About the book

Why Moby-Dick is a great book to read in English

Call me Ishmael: a restless narrator ships out on a whaler whose captain has one purpose — revenge on the white whale that took his leg. Moby-Dick (1851) is the Everest of this library: enormous, digressive, magnificent. The 135 short chapters give you natural footholds for the climb.

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