The 100 best novels: No 17 – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
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Moby-Dick without Ahab is just a book about whaling and a hundred and fifty years later we would not be talking about it. In order to facilitate the fastening to it of Herman melville from moby dick additional line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the harpoon.