Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Moby-DickisanovelconsideredanoutstandingworkofRomanticismandtheAmericanRenaissance.IshmaelnarratesthemonomaniacalquestofAhab,captainofthewhalerPequod,forrevengeonMobyDick,awhitewhalewhichonapreviousvoyagedestroyedAhab'sshipandseveredhislegattheknee.Althoughthenovelwasacommercialfailureandoutofprintatthetimeoftheauthor'sdeathin1891,itsreputationasaGreatAmericanNovelgrewduringthetwentiethcentury.D.H.Lawrencecalleditoneofthestrangestandmostwonderfulbooksintheworld,andthegreatestbookoftheseaeverwritten.CallmeIshmaelisoneofworldliterature'smostfamousopeningsentences.
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