Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware that its captain, the mysterious Ahab, is out for revenge. His plan is to pursue and kill the vicious white whale Moby Dick, and no one can stop him.
