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Moby Dick
Call me Ishmael—and call this no mere tale of whaling, but a meditation on the vast, inscrutable forces that govern man and nature alike. This book is a voyage: outward across the watery globe, and inward into the soul of man. It tells of a ship, the Pequod, and of its captain, Ahab—a man driven not by profit nor pride, but by a furious need to confront the great white whale that maimed him. In pursuit of Moby Dick, the boundaries between vengeance and madness, reason and myth, blur like sea-foam on the wind. Here you will find cetology and scripture, harpoons and soliloquies, New Bedford sermons and South Sea storms. It is a story full of strange digressions, like the ocean itself—never still, never singular. If you seek only a tale of adventure, you may find it here. But if you suspect, as I did, that beneath the surface of all things lies a vast, silent Leviathan—then welcome aboard. — Herman Melville "Truth is in things, not words."
- Language
- EN
- Genres
- adventure, novel
- Published
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