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Obsession and Revenge

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Melville, Herman · 2001

A obsessed captain named Ahab leads a whaling ship on a dangerous hunt for a great white whale that previously cost him his leg, driving both himself and his crew toward destruction.

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