O jovem Ismael decide se aventurar na pesca baleeira, encontrando no navio Pequod vaga para a empreitada. Sob o comando do tirânico capitão Ahab, com o tempo fica mais claro que essa não é uma simples viagem de pesca, mas de vingança: o capitão procura Moby Dick, imenso cachalote branco que lhe arrancou a perna em uma de suas viagens. Em um misto de loucura e obsessão, os tripulantes lançam-se nessa perseguição insana, cujo destino trágico avizinha se a todo instante. (fonte: site da editora)
Author
There is more than one author with this name Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick—largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public—was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.
