"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

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Publisher: International Collectors Library
Binding: William Morris Binding
Pages: 502

Original Publish Date: October 18, 1851
Country: United States
Genre: Adventure Fiction
Full Title: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Synopsis: "The epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession." -Goodreads

Fun Fact: The early copies of the British books were censored and some parts of the book were omitted.

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