
Moby-Dick
Ishmael ships on the Pequod under a captain hunting one white whale. The book stops for whales, work, and metaphysics, then returns to the chase.
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Melville’s Moby-Dick begins as a whaling voyage and becomes a meditation on obsession, work, and what cannot be charted. The narrative voice never sits still for long.

Ishmael ships on the Pequod under a captain hunting one white whale. The book stops for whales, work, and metaphysics, then returns to the chase.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale turns on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale turns on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.

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