Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The novel describes the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale Moby Dick.

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The book's language is highly symbolic, and many themes run throughout the work. The narrator's reflections, along with complex descriptions of the grueling work of whaling and the personalities of his shipmates, are woven into a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Moby-Dick is often considered the epitome of American Romanticism. The novel frequently employs Shakespearean devices, including formal stage directions and extended soliloquies and asides.

The novel was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18 1851 in an expurgated three-volume edition entitled The Whale, and then, in one massive volume, by New York City's Harper and Brothers as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale on November 14 1851. The first line of Chapter One—"Call me Ishmael."—is one of the most famous in literature. Although the book initially received mostly negative reviews, Moby-Dick is now considered one of the greatest novels in the English language and has secured Melville's reputation in the first rank of American writers.

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Moby Dick is a mottled sperm whale with a white hump, of extraordinary ferocity and size, but is also possessed of ineffable strength, mystery, and power. The color white is explored in the chapter "The Whiteness of the Whale". It calls into question the meaning of the chapters on cetology. The symbolism of the whale is not clear; many things, including nature, providence, fate, and even God, have been suggested.

Melville spelled the whale's name without a hyphen, but included one in the book's title.

In popular culture, Moby Dick is often depicted as being an albino whale.

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