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  • This was another classic I had never had to read that I decided would be worth my while. Awesome!

    

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  • Moby-Dick

  • Very long story. Yet very boring.

    

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  • Definitely my next entry in the next "classic you haven't read" TT Poll.

    

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Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told.

Moby-Dick, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature.

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