Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, the story of a doomed whaling voyage that ends when the ship is rammed and sunk by a massive white sperm whale.

Not until the early 20th century was Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick first recognized as a literary masterpiece and touted as a cornerstone of modern American literature. Etching of Joseph O.

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", published in 1851 tells the tale of Captain Ahab and his maniacal pursuit of the ever-elusive white whale, Moby Dick. The story is told primarily through the thoughts of ...

The whale skeleton was kept in a barn at Constable Burton for many years A stately home has appealed for people to return bones from a whale skeleton described in the book Moby Dick. Burton ...