Moby-Dick or The Whale
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- 1851-10-18
Moby-Dick or The Whale is a great novel written by Herman Melville. It is one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.
The story takes place on a whaling ship called the Pequod. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding a white whale called Moby Dick and destroying him.
Ahab has lost his leg to this whale in an earlier encounter and now wants revenge. He has been searching for years and believes that he will find it soon, but his crew are growing tired of this quest and want to return home without him. The book also tells us about life onboard a whaling ship and what it was like at that time.
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