Moby Dick (harperperennial Classics) [Paperback]

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

Melville’s classic tale of obsession and the sea, one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature,Moby Dickis a riveting drama, exploring rage, hope, destiny, and the deepest questions of moral truth.

“Call me Ishmael.”

Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature—the voyage of the whaling shipPequodand its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that thePequod’s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab’s former vessel and left him crippled. As thePequodsails deeper through the nights and into the sea, the divisions between man and nature begin to blur—so do the lines between good and evil, as the fates of the ship’s crewmen become increasingly unclear. . . .

“Call me Ishmael.”

Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature—the voyage of the whaling shipPequodand its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that thePequod’s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab’s former vessel and left him crippled. As thePequodsails deeper through the nights and into the sea, the divisions between man and nature begin to blur—so do the lines between good and evil, as the fates of the ship’s crewmen become increasingly unclear....

Melville’s classic tale of obsession and the sea, one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature,Moby Dickis a riveting drama, exploring rage, hope, destiny, and the deepest questions of moral truth.