Whales -- Fiction

Fiction featuring whales as prominent subjects or symbolic elements, ranging from realistic depictions to allegorical treatments of these marine creatures.

1 Book 31 min read

Summaries

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Melville, Herman

Herman Melville's epic whaling saga follows Ishmael's voyage aboard the doomed Pequod, where the monomaniacal Captain Ahab hunts the great white whale that destroyed his leg, dragging his crew into a fatal obsession with vengeance.

Whales -- Fiction 31 min