Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

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"Call me Ishmael." So begins the voyage of the whaler Pequod, captained by the monomaniacal Ahab, who has sworn to hunt down the great white whale that took his leg. Through the eyes of the wandering sailor Ishmael — and his friendship with the harpooner Queequeg — Melville turns a Pacific whaling expedition into a vast meditation on obsession, free will, evil, and the indifference of the natural world. Encyclopedic digressions on whales and whaling sit alongside soliloquies of Shakespearean grandeur, forging a book unlike any other in American literature. Both an adventure and a metaphysical epic, Moby-Dick remains one of the defining works of world fiction.

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