Moby Dick

The QEM Classic collection is available on Amazon.QEM Classic eBooks have Hyperlinked Table Of Contents so that readers can easily go to a specific chapter by clicking its entry in the TOC.Moby Dick or the Whale was first published by Herman Melville in 1851. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation grew immensely during the twentieth century and led this book in the Olympus of the greatest novels of all time. Through the eyes of Ishmael, anonymous sailor aboard the whaling ship Pequod, we witness the furious hunt of the savage white whale by the Captain Ahab. The Whale is an almighty monster symbolizing Nature, but it is furthermore the symbol of Evil itself. What Melville stages in this book is the endless struggle of Humanity against Evil.Themes, style and structure make of this great book one of the most brilliant examples of modernist literature.