Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Call him Ishmael. He needs a job. He signs on a whaler. The Pequod is not hiring tourists. Its captain has one purpose, one missing piece of himself, and a white whale he has already decided to meet. Crew from everywhere. Sermons. Oil. A sea that does not care what a man has sworn. You came for the chase. Melville will also give you the work, the waiting, and the names of things that kill you. This is not a tidy sea story. It is the voyage that swallowed American literature and did not spit it back.