Moby Dick
About this book
Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.
Subjects
- ahab, captain (fictitious character), fiction
- captain ahab (fictitious character)
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, fantasy, epic
- fiction, sea stories
- sea stories
- whales
- whaling
- whaling ships