Moby Dick, or, The Whale (Annotated)

Herman Melville, an American author, wrote "Moby-Dick," a novel first published in 1851. Among the most influential pieces of American literature and a tremendous work of world literature, it's frequently cited as a "classic of literature." The novel is a complicated and varied investigation of subjects like obsession, revenge, the nature of bad and human interaction with nature.

Ishmael is a man who joins the whaling vessel Pequod, commanded by the vengeful and mysterious Captain a Hab, and...