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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
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1 de jul. de 2001 · Moby Dick; Or, The Whale Note Project Gutenberg eBook #15 is believed to have the highest quality of the three editions of this eBook in the Project Gutenberg collection.
18 de ago. de 2021 · “The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” —Baron Cuvier. “In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.” —Colnett’s Voyage for the Purpose of Extending the Spermaceti Whale Fishery.
"Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" (1851) recounts the adventures of Ishmael as he sails on the whaling ship, the Pequod, under the command of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, who's willing to risk everything to hunt down the great white whale. One of the finest examples in the genre of Dark Romanticism.
Herman Melville's last and best and most wildly imaginative story, The Whale.... will worthily support his reputation for singularly vivid and reckless imaginative power -- great aptitude for quaint and original philosophical speculation, degenerating, however, too often into rhapsody and purposeless extravagance -- an almost unparalled power ...
1731 quotes from Moby-Dick or, The Whale: ‘I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.’
