“My name is Ishmael, and once I enjoyed traveling on the open sea. However, when I boarded the whaling ship Pequod as a sailor, I could not imagine how much my life would change. Captain Ahab was on a quest for a single whale, Moby Dick. The fearsome white beast that had taken his leg. His thirst for revenge led us all into a terrible adventure with unimaginable consequences.”

Although the book Moby Dick by author Herman Melville was not successful when it was published in 1851, it became particularly well-known during the twentieth century. D. H. Lawrence even called it “one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world,” and today it is considered the greatest American novel ever written.