Moby Dick Penguin English Library
Penguin Books
The frail gunwales bent in collapsed and snapped as both jaws like an enormous shears sliding further aft bit the craft completely in twain Moby Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature the mad raging Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab s insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg and upon which he has sworn vengeance at any cost A creation unlike any other this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind
