&quot;Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people&apos;s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."
&quot;Moby Dick" by Herman Melville was first published in 1851. The book is sailor Ishmael&apos;s narrative of the obsessive quest of captain Ahab for revenge on the whale Moby Dick that bit off his leg on his previous voyage. The bestselling novel «Moby Dick» is a classic of world literature and marked a great success for Herman Melville.

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Moby Dick (English Edition)

White Jacket (Unabridged)

I and My Chimney

Bartleby, the Scrivener (Unabridged)

The Piazza (Unabridged)

The Collected Works of Herman Melville

Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas (Unabridged)

Benito Cereno (Unabridged)

Moby Dick (Unabridged)

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