Moby Dick, or The Whale

At the center of Melville's novel "Moby Dick, or The Whale" is the deadly confrontation between the brave captain of the whaling ship Ahab and the giant white whale that embodies world evil. Against the backdrop of epic maritime landscapes, the crew of the "Pequod" is perceived as a symbol of humanity wandering the ocean of life and fearlessly challenging hostile destructive forces. Unaccepted by the writer's contemporaries, "Moby Dick" returned from oblivion only at the beginning of the last century and is still considered one of the greatest American novels.