Publisher's Synopsis
Annotations This book is unique because it contains a literary criticism that was made by Jannette TorresHerman Melville recounts in Moby Dick the journey of the whaler Pequod in the self-destructive pursuit of a great white whale, but in reality Moby Dick is the constant search for an obsession.Melville writes what will be his masterpiece, Moby Dick, initially titled The whale, in 1850.The plot, apparently, is very simple: the story of a long whale fishing expedition, aboard the Pequod, sailing from the North American port of Nantucket that almost monopolized the industry of these cetaceans.The central character is Captain Ahab, with his obsessive and suicidal pursuit of the white whale, Moby Dick, who does not get caught and ends up charging and sinking the whaler.Only the sailor Ismael, who is the narrator of the story, is saved from the disaster, whose beginning will also become one of the best introductions of American literature:
