HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best loved essential classics.`Towards thee I roll thou all destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell s heart I stab at thee; for hate s sake I spit my last breath at thee... Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.Inspired by true events Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature.