Moby-Dick

Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware that its captain, the mysterious Ahab, is out for revenge. His plan is to...