# Moby-Dick

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- Book: [Moby-Dick](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/moby-dick) ([Moby-Dick.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/moby-dick.md))
- Authors: [Herman Melville](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4243-724-7
- Pages: 720
- Published: 2003-02-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. More than just a novel of adventure, this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception.