Moby Dick: Or, The Whale

“Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.” –from Moby Dick Moby Dick is Herman Melville’s sixth novel, first published in London in 1851, and a masterpiece of American literature which combines a dozen of literary techniques like fictional adventure story, scientific interpretation and historical detail. Moby Dick is a story telling about a sailor, Ishmael, and his voyage upon...