Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
A tried-and-true classic, the story of a whaling ship and its mark—the great white whale Moby Dick. Deeply allegorical with stirring prose, this is more about the old whaling industry than you ever needed to know, yet still profound and moving.
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
Illustrations by Rockwell Kent
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of ...


