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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Summary

The narrator Ishmael joins the obsessive Captain Ahab's vengeful quest for the white whale that took his leg. Melville's encyclopaedic novel about whaling, obsession, fate, and the American character was a commercial failure in its time.

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Published
1851
Author
Herman Melville