It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby-Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.

No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby-Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby-Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D. H. Lawrence wrote, Moby-Dick commands a stillness in the soul, an awe [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.

Introduction

MOB Y-DICK

Etymology

Extracts

CHAPTER 1

Loomings

CHAPTER 2

The Carpet-Bag

CHAPTER 3

The Spouter-Inn

CHAPTER 4

The Counterpane

CHAPTER 5

Breakfast

CHAPTER 6

The Street

CHAPTER 7

The Chapel

CHAPTER 8

The Pulpit

CHAPTER 9

The Sermon

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