Literature
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Key Statistics
ID: moby-dickPublished
1851
Pages
48
Est. Weight
0.6 lbs
About this Edition
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a cr...
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