Moby Dick is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance.
Call me Ishmael is among world literature\'s most famous opening sentences..
Lawrence called it one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world, and the greatest book of the sea ever written.
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William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, and D.
The novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author\'s death in 1891, but during the 20th century, its reputation as a Great American Novel was established.
Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab\'s leg at the knee.
Moby Dick is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance
