
`Moby-Dick` is the story of Captain Ahab`s quest to avenge the whale that `reaped` his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to...
"I look out of my window in the morning when I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic." In his imagination Melville lived as well as wrote Moby Dick, his great epic of whales and whaling, It...
The last great work of Melville\'s seafaring genius was Billy Budd, Sailor, set aboard H. M. S. Bellifwtent. When Billy, a handsome, unpretentious, stuttering young able-seaman, is falsely accused of inciting...
