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Title:
Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
First Published in: 1855
Moby-Dick, or, the Whale (1855) a novel by H. Melville.
Captain Ahab seeks revenge on the white whale that has
bitten off his leg. 'Call me Ishmael', is the striking
opening phrase of a story that takes the young narator to
sea on the doomed whaler pequod. Both Ahab and lshmael
seek knowledge, hut while Ishmael learns love and
humanity 'monomaniacal Ahab' pursues a demonic God behind
the 'hooded phantom' or 'unreasoning mask' of the
symbolic whale. Melville interrupts the narrative with
facts, tales, and soliloquies including Father Mapple's
sermon on the Leviathan, the Towmho's story, dissertation
on whales ('Cetology'), and a meta physical dissertation
on the ambiguous white ness of the whale'. After a fierce
three-day chas Moby-Dick destroys the Pequod. Ishmat
survives the vortex: 'And only I am escape alone to tell
thee', begins his epilogue, citing the Book of Job.
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