Moby-Dick, or, The whale /
Moby-Dick Whale
Herman Melville ; introduction by Andrew Delbanco ; notes and explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk.
- New York : Penguin Books, 1992
- li, 654 pages ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxix]-xxx).
Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.