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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. As D. H. Lawrence wrote, MOBY-DICK “commands a stillness in the soul, an awe... [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.”
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