Nominated as one of America&rsquo;s best-loved novels by PBS&rsquo;s&nbsp;<i>The Great American Read</i>. First published in 1851, Herman Melville&rsquo;s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick&rsquo;s words, &ldquo;the greatest novel in American literature.&rdquo; The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel&rsquo;s narrator, Ishmael, <i>Moby-Dick</i> draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.