Moby-Dick

"e,It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear, blubber is blubber you know, tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree,--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this."e,Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship Pequod's ...