Moby Dick

"Call me Ishmael". Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said that he wanted to write 'a mighty book about a mighty theme' and so he did -- a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier encounter. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history and a mass of information about whaling in the 19th century. William Hootkins's numerous readings for the audiobook industry include novels, best-sellers, poetry, drama, political satires, comic thrillers and short stories; as well as the original novels of Psycho and On the Waterfront. He is best known for the award-winning Paul Theroux travel books and classics of American literature. He also reads Hiawatha for Naxos AudioBooks. His films include Star Wars, Batman and Raiders of the Lost Ark.