Readable Classics gently edits great works of literature, retaining the original authors' voices, to provide study aids for students and make the classics more accessible to modern readers.
Moby Dick is Herman Melville’s 1851 masterpiece. Ishmael, a crewman aboard the whaling ship Pequod, narrates Captain Ahab’s obsessive, doomed quest to destroy the great white whale that took his leg.
A tremendously ambitious novel, Moby Dick became the first great American epic and myth, a tale of life at sea and the conflict between man and his fate. Brilliant, humorous, and bleak, Melville espouses his philosophy of life, death, religion, and moral values.
