TY - BOOK AU - Melville,Herman TI - Moby-Dick: or, The whale T2 - Penguin classics SN - 9780141199603 U1 - 813.3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Penguin Classics KW - Whaling KW - Fiction KW - Ishmael (Fictitious character) KW - Whales KW - Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) KW - Whaling ships KW - Ship captains KW - Sea fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Herman Melville asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work; Illustrations on endpapers N2 - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee ER -