- American Sea stories, Mentally ill, Whaling, Science Fiction & Fantasy
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale."
- Animal harm
- Bleak ending
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Grave, earnest, prestige and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Herman Melville
- First published
- 1851
- Pages
- 452
- Publisher
- International Collectors Library, ICON Group International, Inc., Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
- Editions
- 1115
- Language
- cat, gre, Spanish, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781561034321
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“Call me Ishmael.”
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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