Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

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Moby-Dick is the great American sea story: a whaling voyage bent to one captain's hunt for the white whale that took his leg. Chapter 42, the most famous chapter in the book, asks why whiteness itself can terrify. Read it in the original, with every hard word explained where it stands.