A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab\'s ship and severed his leg at the knee.
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Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author\'s death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the 20th century.
A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab\'s ship and severed his leg at the knee