<DIV><i>Moby-Dick</i> is at once a thrilling adventure tale, a timeless allegory, and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At its heart is the powerful, unknowable sea?and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab’s whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God’s most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.<br> <br> A novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men, <i>Moby-Dick</i> is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the <i>Atlantic Monthly </i>called ?the greatest of American novels.”<br> <br><br> <b>With an Introduction by Elizabeth Renker and a New Afterword</b><br></div>