Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville

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The story

Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for the white whale is at once adventure, philosophical essay and encyclopedia of the sea — one of the monuments of the nineteenth-century novel.

About the author

Herman Melville (1819–1891), an American sailor and writer, published Moby-Dick in 1851, today considered a pillar of world literature.

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