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　　​Written by one of America's greatest authors, Moby-Dick is a work of tremendous power and depth-one of world literature's great poetic epics. In the novel, publis360百科hed in 1851 after sixteen months of writin流吸院病响调g, Herman Melville recounts the Promethean qu里失井易est of Cap划外财线蒸的误切宣tain Ahab, who, having lost a leg in a earlier battle with White Whale, is determined to catch the beast and destroy it. By the time readers meet Ahab, he is a vengeful, crazed, and terror-provoking figure, for Moby Dick has come to represent for him all the evil in the world.

Moby-Dick

　　The rel药你谓定系充entless voyage of 云载歌种单况改把场Ahab and his crew, a finely etched group of weird and wonderful charac临略施考吗负光掉ters who seem 鸡致长笔江both flesh-and-blood individuals and symbolic of the varying qualities of men, becomes a masterful drama of life at sea. The drama is made more fascinating by Melville's eloquent style-a combination of the journalistic, colloquial, and poetic-and the themes and subjects he pursues-whales and whaling; mean's ne关议作ed for love 龙扬见识渐洋范编and comradeship; and the fury of Ahab for the whale.