Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York, on Nov. 14, 1851. While Moby-Dick is now considered America’s greatest epic, the book about Captain Ahab and the white whale, was initially considered a flop.

The Classic Novel
Despite the narrator Ishmael’s exhaustive description, he can never fully understand the nature of the behemoth Moby-Dick, which is usually interpreted as a symbol of evil, God, or an indifferent universe. Read more about the classic American novel and navigate through 200 years of other famous literary works here.

Sperm Whales: The Realy Moby Dick
Learn the facts behind the mystique of the sperm whale here.
Interact with the habits, biology, and social structure of sperm whales here.