by Herman Melville

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Original Title: Moby Dick; or, The Whale

Author: Herman Melville

Genres: Fiction, Adventure

Publisher: Madness Serial Publishing

File Version: 1.0

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville considered to be one of the Great American Novels and an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance.

Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee.

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.

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