Moby Dick

<p><strong>A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick</strong></p><p><strong>Melville's classic tale of obsession and the sea one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature <em>Moby Dick</em> is a riveting drama exploring rage hope destiny and the deepest questions of moral truth.</strong> </p><p>Call me Ishmael.</p><p>Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature--the voyage of the whaling ship <em>Pequod</em> and its embattled monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the <em>Pequod</em>'s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab's former vessel and left him crippled. As the <em>Pequod</em> sails deeper through the nights and into the sea the divisions between man and nature begin to blur--so do the lines between good and evil as the fates of the ship's crewmen become increasingly unclear. . . .</p>