Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

🕰️ First published in 1951

🏠 Published by Oxford University Press, 50 edition(s)

📕 508 pages

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“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”
—Herman Melville

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“There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men”
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“I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.”
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