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There are many candidates for the title of the ‘Great American NovelHerman Melville's <i>[https://www.amazon.’ One of the book’s that is often cited as the greatest American novel of all time is ‘Moby Dick’ com/gp/product/0393285006/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393285006&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=b4c55d8d7996ba589e02a187eb6e441a Moby Dick]</i> (1851). This book is not only one of the best-known novels but most important works of fiction in the English language United States history. While Melville's book is undoubtedly fiction, he drew widely from his experiences as a whaler and has been translated into almost every languagesome incredible stories of remarkably dangerous 19th-century whales. It His book is perhaps not only the most famous novel about whaling but also the most famous novel about the an extraordinarily accurate depiction of life at sea that was ever written.
A famous Hollywood Unsurprisingly for work as prominent as Moby Dick, it has been turned into a movie, starring Gregory Peck, based on the novel was made in 1967, and the work also inspired a mini-series, starring Ethan Hawke (2011). The story Recently, even one of the obsessive Captain Ahab and his pursuit stories that inspired the novel was turned into the movie In the Heart of the White Whale have entered the popular imaginationSea (2015) starring Chris Hemsworth and directed by Ron Howard. Was the novel based on a So what real-life historical event events and figuresexperiences inspired Melville to write <i>Moby Dick</i>?
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[[File:Moby Dick one.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Herman Melville]]__NOTOC__
====The author of Moby Dick====
====The plot of the novel====
[[File: Moby Dick Two.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Ahab and the whale]]
The novel opens with the narrator Ishmael looking for a ship. He is a man who is seeking a purpose in life. He signs up to serve on a whaling ship the Pequod in Nantucket. The captain of the ship is Ahab, who throughout the novel is shown to be an unstable man possessed with a desire top to kill the white whale.
Ishmael meets a host of colorful characters on-board the ship including Queequeg, and Fedallah, both harpooners. Captain Ahab has lost his leg in an encounter with a gigantic white sperm whale, and his desire for revenge consumes him. He nails a gold coin to the mast and states that he will give it to the first man who sees the whale, the legendary Moby Dick. Ishmael soon realizes that this is not a typical whaling mission but a revenge mission.
