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Call me Ishmael. A young sailor signs on to the whaling ship Pequod and finds her captain, Ahab, hunting one particular white whale with a fury that frightens his own crew. Part sea adventure, part meditation on obsession, Moby-Dick opens with the most famous first line in American fiction and never lets go of you.
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Source: Standard Ebooks. Published 1851. Author died 1891. Public domain worldwide. Share this book: WhatsApp
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