HERMAN MELVILLE
Description
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 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.