Moby-Dick

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain Ahab is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale Moby Dick and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis. A masterpiece A great book...a deep great artist A wonderful delight Moby Dick is my favourite novel bar none. It works on so many levels. It taught me that you can have a top layer of narrative - like the seafaring story - and then below that all those wonderful rich symbolic things going on To convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of <i>Typee</i> and <i>Omoo</i> has here placed before the reading public is impossible in the scope of a review. High philosophy liberal feeling abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased soaring speculation a style as many-coloured as the theme yet always good and often admirable; fertile fancy ingenious construction playful learning and an unusual power of enchaining the interest and rising to the verge of the sublime without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville and exemplified in these volumes When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain Ahab is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale Moby Dick and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.