Moby-Dick (PocketBook)

No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental MOBY-DICK

Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the

White Whale is a timeless epic-a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told.

Far ahead of its own time, MOBY-DICK was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today however, it is indisputably a classic. As D. H. Lawrence wrote, MOBY DICK " commandstillness in the soul, an awe( It is) one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.