Moby Dick (novel)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the whale.
Moby Dick is a work of profound symbolism. It is usually considered that it shares characteristics of the allegory and the epic. It includes references to subjects as diverse as biology, idealism, hierarchy, obsession, politics, pragmatism, racism, religion and revenge.
The Pequod crew have origins as varied as Chile, Colombia, China, Denmark, Spain, France, Holland, India, England, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Tahiti, suggesting that the Pequod is a representation of the humanity.