Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's magnum opus, is an epic tale of obsession, vengeance, and the unrelenting power of the natural world. At the heart of this masterful work of American literature lies the enigmatic Captain Ahab, a man consumed by his monomaniacal quest to slay the great white whale that took his leg-a quest that leads him and his crew aboard the Pequod on a perilous journey into the deepest, darkest reaches of the human soul. Melville's...