Herman Melville’s thrilling nautical adventurea timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.

At the heart ofMoby-Dickis the powerful, unknowable seaand Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahabs whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge Gods most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.

A novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men,Moby-Dickis an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that theAtlantic Monthlycalled the greatest of American novels.

With an Introduction by Elizabeth Renker
and an Afterword by Christopher Buckley