Public-domain book · Herman Melville
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Moby Dick by Herman Melville is about 204,220 words — roughly 734 pages in a 6 x 9 in edition, 14 h 18 min to read.
If you published a new edition
| Trim | 10 pt | 11 pt | 12 pt | Spine (white, 11 pt) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 x 8 in | 856 | 1020 | 1218 | 2.297 in |
| 5.5 x 8.5 in | 676 | 844 | 972 | 1.901 in |
| 6 x 9 in | 608 | 734 | 864 | 1.653 in |
| 6.14 x 9.21 in | 564 | 676 | 816 | 1.522 in |
Based on an estimated 204,220 words in the Project Gutenberg text (licence boilerplate excluded).
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Subjects
Whaling -- Fiction; Sea stories; Psychological fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Adventure stories; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Whales -- Fiction; Whaling ships -- Fiction
Sources & data
- Metadata from Project Gutenberg (ebook #2701) via Gutendex; edition statistics from Open Library. Word count estimated from the plain-text file size.