Herman Melville
1) Moby Dick
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?Call me Ishmael.? Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature-the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod?s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab?s former vessel and left him crippled. As the Pequod sails deeper through the nights and into the sea, the divisions between...
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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This novel began as a simple rewrite of an obscure little narrative, in which Israel Potter tells the story of his sad fall from revolutionary hero to London peddler. Following its opening chapter Melville's novel retells that tale, then alternately moves between invented episodes and historical sources unrelated to the original.