Publisher's Synopsis
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is written by American writer Herman Melville, first published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. It is a story of a ship captain - Captain Ahab who during one of his voyages is bitten by an enormous white whale, Moby Dick. Vengeful Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and waging an unholy war against the white whale.
