Moby Dick is the work of American writer and poet Herman Melville 1819-1891 The novel narrates the story of Ahab Captain of the whaler Pequod and his quest to kill the great white whale that gives the novel its name as revenge for sinking his previous vessel and losing one of his legsMoby Dick has remained to this day as one of the great American novels becoming a synonym of nautical adventure and an archetype of the revenge story...