Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Ishmael joins the Pequod and is drawn into Captain Ahab's consuming pursuit of the white whale.

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The novel combines adventure, obsession, comedy, philosophy, natural history, and some of the most recognizable prose in American literature.

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