No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville\'s monumental Moby Dick .
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Today, however, it is indisputably a classic.
Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville\'s contemporaries.
It is the greatest sea story ever told.
Mad Captain Ahab\'s quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville\'s monumental Moby Dick