". . . the greatest of American novels."--The Atlantic Monthly A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling maritime adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and vengeful sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him and came to dominate his life. But more than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes the human soul. A literary classic first published in 1851,Moby-Dickremains among the most highly acclaimed novels of the sea and a powerful account of the ultimate human struggle.