Moby Dick

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. So begins the confession at the heart of one of literature's most towering adventures. Considered by many to be the Great American Novel, Herman Melville's 1851 tale follows Ahab, the brooding, obsessed captain of a whaling ship, and his relentless quest to kill Moby Dick - the white whale that has ruined fleets and taken his leg. This unabridged edition preserves Melville's full telling of a story pitting humans against the unforgiving natural world, its twists of fate building one of the most masterful adventure stories and psychological dramas ever written.