Moby-Dick
Read Moby-Dick by Herman Melville in Turkish and English, a parallel text graded reader with audio. Available in CEFR levels A2, B1, B2, and C2.
About this book
"Call me Ishmael." With those three words, a melancholy wanderer takes to the sea to cure his spleen, and the book follows him from a dilapidated New Bedford inn to the deck of a Nantucket whaler. At the Spouter-Inn he is made to share a bed with an absent harpooneer, and when the tattooed cannibal Queequeg finally climbs in beside him with a lit tomahawk-pipe, fear gives way to something rarer. The two become bosom friends, forehead to forehead, sworn to die for one another. "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian," Ishmael decides, and the reversal, delivered without a shred of preaching, sets the book's moral compass early.
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Bana Ishmael deyin.
Call me Ishmael.
Birkaç yıl önce — tam ne kadar önce olduğunu söylemeyeceğim — hiç param yoktu, ya da çok azdı.
Some years ago — I won’t say exactly how long — I had little or no money.
Ayrıca beni karada tutacak özel bir şeyim de yoktu.
I also had nothing special to keep me on land.
Bu yüzden bir süre denize açılmaya ve dünyanın sulu kısmını görmeye karar verdim.
So I decided to sail for a while and see the watery part of the world.
Kendimi böyle daha iyi ve daha canlı hissediyorum.
This is how I feel better and more active.
Bazen ağzım sıkı ve sert bir hal alıyor.
Sometimes my mouth feels tight and grim.
Bazen ruhum ıslak ve gri bir kasım ayı gibi oluyor.
Sometimes my soul feels like a wet, gray November.
History
- Written by Herman Melville in English
- Adapted by Line by Line Publishing in 2026