Moby Dick
About this book
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale."
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- ahab, captain (fictitious character), fiction
- american adventure stories
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature, history and criticism
- american sea stories
- baleines
- ballenas
- capitanes de barcos
- captain ahab (fictitious character)
- chasse
- classic literature
- drama (dramatic works by one author)
- enfermos mentales
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, fantasy, epic
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, sea stories
- general
- great_books_of_the_western_world
- illustrations
- literature
- literature and fiction, action and adventure
- literature and fiction (general)
- long now manual for civilization
- mentally ill
- naufragios
- open library staff picks
- open_syllabus_project
- pictorial works
- picture-writing in literature
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- readers for new literates
- readers (primary)
- sailors
- science fiction & fantasy
- sea stories
- sea stories, history and criticism
- ship captains
- shipwrecks
- translations into french
- whales
- whales, fiction
- whales in literature
- whaling
- whaling, fiction
- whaling in literature
- whaling ships