Moby Dick

The legend of Moby Dick, the great White Whale, is Herman Melville’s most enduring creation. 



“Drink Ye Harpooners! Death to Moby Dick!”


With that fateful cry, Captain Ahab drags his crew to fulfill his obsession: the destruction of the great White Whale known as Moby Dick. 


To Captain Ahab, the creature that took his leg is not just a whale; it is the embodiment of pure evil.


Brimming with imagery and symbolism, its intensity sustained by roguish irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Melville's masterpiece is both a great American epic and one of the most profoundly imaginative creations in literary history. It has thrilled readers for over one hundred years. 


 “Moby Dick is quite simply the quintessential sea-faring tale for readers of all ages, in a wonderful new 21st century digital edition.”

—Matt Travers


Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, sailor, and customs inspector. The author of numerous classic novels, essays, and short stories, he is perhaps best known for Moby Dick, Typee, The Confidence Man, Redburn, Clarel, Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Billy Budd. He is considered a literary colossus, and a central figure in the development of the modern novel.  



PHILIP DOSSICK is the New York Times critically acclaimed writer and director of the motion picture The P.O.W. He has written for television, including the outstanding drama, Transplant, produced by David Susskind for CBS. His most recent books include Aztecs: Epoch Of Social Revolution, Sex And Dreams, Mark Twain In Seattle, The Naked Citizen: Notes On Privacy In The Twenty-First Century, Raymond Chowder And Bob Skloot Must Die, The Deposition, Vincent Van Gogh: Madness And Magic, Abraham Lincoln: 5 Speeches that Changed America, Martin Luther King: 5 Speeches that Changed America, and Nelson Mandela: 5 Speeches that Changed South Africa.