Moby Dick

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.¿Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell¿s heart I stab at thee; for hate¿s sake I spit my last breath at thee¿¿Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville¿s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab¿s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic ¿ a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature.