Moby Dick

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics.</p><p>'Towards thee I roll thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...'</p><p>Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.</p><p>Inspired by true events Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature.</p>