“Moby-Dick” (1851) by Herman Melville follows the vengeful Captain Ahab as he leads the whaling ship Pequod on a fanatical quest to hunt down the elusive white whale, Moby Dick, who once took his leg. Narrated by Ishmael, a thoughtful sailor drawn to the sea, the novel blends high-seas adventure with profound philosophical musings on fate, obsession, and man’s struggle against nature. Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit consumes him and his diverse crew-including the harpooner Queequeg, whose friendship with Ishmael highlights themes of brotherhood and otherness. Packed with digressions on whaling lore, biblical allegory, and existential dread, Moby-Dick builds to a catastrophic climax that questions the very nature of revenge and the limits of human understanding.