Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Published 2003 · 720 pages · 198,000 words · about 13 hours at an average pace

How hard is Moby-Dick or, The Whale to read?

Moby-Dick or, The Whale scores 50 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

About the author

Herman Melville