Moby Dick
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classic edition.
Herman Melville’s classic begins with one of the most famous opening lines in world literature: “Call me Ishmael.” Moby Dick was a commercial failure when it was first published in 1851, but during the 20th century, the book’s reputation grew and grew.
The novel features a memorable cast of characters, in particular the ivory-legged Captain Ahab, who lost a limb to the gargantuan white whale named Moby Dick. Now, Ahab’s sole obsession is hunting down the sea creature to exact his revenge. Heedless of warnings, Ahab risks ship and crew in his maniacal pursuit, bearing out Melville’s observation that ”there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
Customer Reviews
Moby Dick
This book has one of the best descriptions of a person going mad and destructing everything around him because of obsession. Captain Ahab- one of the main characters, craved revenge against the whale which instinctively, showing its coping mechanism, deprived him of his leg. I don’t think that it was his lost leg that made him pursue the idea of killing the most dangerous whale, but the wish of becoming the greatest, feeling satisfied of being the one who would kill Moby Dick. The ending shows how all of the crew of “Pequode” has been hurt because of the crazy captain, who refused to
stand back from his goal. The only person who survived, was the storyteller who shared this story with others, and also told a lot about one of the most interesting creatures-whales.