First American edition of the author\'s masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab\'s obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. Captain Ahab as an eerily compelling madman 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.This title ...