Moby Dick - The World's Best Reading Author:Herman Melville A novel that explores the darkest depths and brightest hopes in the souls of men, Moby-Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called "the greatest of American novels." — "Call me Ishmael." No opening sentence in literature is more famous than this one, and n... more »o American novel deserves to be called a masterpiece more than the work it introduces: Moby Dick -- the epic story of Captain Ahab, a one-legged fanatic whose vengeance toward the white whale that maimed him ignites a mighty clash between good and evil.« less