Herman Melville Moby Dick; or, the Whale Paperback Book Herman Melville Multicolor

American author Herman Melville published his first novel, MobyDick or, The Whale, in 1851. The story of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, and his irrational pursuit for vengeance against Moby Dick, the huge white sperm whale that wounded him on a previous journey, is told in the book by the sailor Ishmael. MobyDick, a work that contributed to the literature of the American Renaissance, had received mixed reviews upon publication, was a commercial flop, and was out of print when the author passed away in 1891. It wasnt until the 20th century, on the centennial of its authors birth in 1919, that it gained recognition as a "Great American Novel." William Faulkner expressed regret for not having written the novel himself, while D. H. Lawrence praised it as "the best book of the sea ever written" and "one of the oddest and most wonderful books in the world." One of the most wellknown starting lines in all of literature is "Call me Ishmael." MobyDick was started by Melville in F