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Cover of “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

654 pages

A wandering sailor joins the whaling ship Pequod, whose captain is obsessed with hunting the white whale that took his leg. As the voyage stretches across the oceans, the crew is dragged toward a reckoning. A vast, digressive novel of obsession, the sea and human nature.

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Revenge, Nautical Adventure, Quest, Philosophical, Byronic Hero

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