Moby-Dick
; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, in which Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the
whaler Pequod, for revenge on the albino sperm whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed
his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891,
its reputation grew immensely during the twentieth century. D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful
books in the world," and "the greatest book of the sea ever written." Moby-Dick is considered a Great American Novel and
an outstanding work of the Romantic period in America and the American Renaissance. "Call me Ishmael" is one of world literature's
most famous opening sentences.
The product of a year and a half of writing, the book is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne, "in token of my admiration for
his genius," and draws on Melville's experience at sea, on his reading in whaling literature, and on literary inspirations
such as Shakespeare and the Bible. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil,
as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good
and evil, and the existence of God. In addition to narrative prose, Melville uses styles and literary devices ranging from
songs, poetry and catalogs to Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies and asides. The author changed the title at the
very last moment in September 1851. The work first appeared as The Whale in London in October 1851, and then under its definitive
title Moby-Dick in New York in November. The whale, however, appears in both the London and New York editions as "Moby Dick,"
with no hyphen. The British edition of five hundred copies was not reprinted during the author's life, the American of almost
three thousand was reprinted three times at approximately 250 copies, the last reprinting in 1871. These figures are exaggerated
because three hundred copies were destroyed in a fire at Harper's; only 3,200 copies were actually sold during the author's
life.
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