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睽違六十年，翻譯名家陳榮彬全新譯本《白鯨記》，見證亞哈船長與大白鯨莫比敵的海上傳奇。
諾貝爾文學獎得主福克納：「看完《白鯨記》，第一個想法是希望這本書是我寫的。」
英國知名小說家暨評論家毛姆認為《白鯨記》是美國文學代表作，它的地位勝過愛倫‧坡與馬克‧吐溫的作品！
曾經影響美國前總統歐巴馬，激發諾貝爾文學獎得主巴布‧狄倫的創作靈魂！
知名品牌星巴克咖啡（Starbucks Coffee）更是得名於《白鯨記》中，愛喝咖啡的大副！
《白鯨記》對後世影響深遠的經典巨作；它是不朽，是文學史上的傳奇！
從今天起，你再也沒有理由不讀《白鯨記》！
梅爾維爾的《白鯨記》是史詩般的海洋文學鉅著，擁有文學史上最著名的開場白，它不但是星巴克咖啡、《星艦迷航記》與《海賊王》等品牌及無數影視藝文創作的命名及取材靈感來源，梅爾維爾還被譽為美國「莎士比亞」！
「叫我伊什梅爾吧。」
故事以捕鯨船水手伊什梅爾這句舉世聞名的開場白作為開頭，接著開始重現「皮廓號」捕鯨船船長亞哈追捕大白鯨「莫比敵」的歷險過程。
亞哈是個聰明而意志堅定的船長，四十年的航海與捕鯨經驗讓他對各大洋的海況及鯨群分布熟悉無比。在一次捕鯨過程中，亞哈被一隻名叫莫比敵的抹香鯨咬斷一條腿，從此決心一定要捕殺莫比敵。
主角伊什梅爾厭煩了陸地上的枯燥生活，決定到海上冒險，他在旅店中認識了來自南太平洋科科沃科島、當過捕鯨船魚叉手的食人族王子魁魁，兩人一見如故成為好友，一起登上皮廓號。
滿心怨念的亞哈船長一心要向莫比敵復仇，他對水手承諾，最先發現那隻白鯨的人就賞一枚金幣。他的執念使他不顧大副星巴克的勸導，也無視拉結號船長驟失愛子的傷痛。
執意在滔滔巨浪中與莫比敵一決生死的亞哈，終於將一整船人帶往地獄。最終，只有伊什梅爾能夠告訴我們，這個漫長而驚險的故事：一個關於大海的故事，一個關乎人性的故事，呈現出人類以己身的力量去對抗大自然的過程。小說中的白鯨莫比敵就像是一種不可抗拒的強大力量，大自然的生態。它呈現悲觀和神祕的情感色彩，轟動歐美文壇。
《白鯨記》結合了虛構與寫實兩種寫作手法，梅爾維爾用敏銳和感性的視角社會，通過小說來表達自己對整個社會生活和人類心靈的思考與評價。
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Group project goes wrong because the leader is way too into whales.funnily enough, that's happened to me in real life
I really hate it when I can't connect with some of the greatest works of art. Moby Dick is sadly one of these!I really tried to enjoy it, but couldn't! It's one of the very few classics which bore me to death. In my opinion, there's very little development when it comes to the characters and the story-line itself. I expected a lot from the author, especially that the book is thick. I told myself here's a story that's going to keep me entertained for a while, but instead I only found an annoyingly massive amount of fishery technicalities. A flat bulk of information to fill the chapters so that the real story can be rewritten in no more than a quarter of the actual number of pages. What bugs me up about this is the uselessness of such details in connection with the direction in which the story moves. The reader could perfectly do without most of that massive amount of waling fishery details! Besides, the characters are mostly flat. There's neither will nor power of will directing their steps and guiding their actions. Take the narrator as an instance. He's a passive observer of everything; merely a man relating his inexistence in the tale. Ahab is another in spite of all his depicted mightiness which remains but empty words. What is he if not simply a stubborn, half-mad, old captain directing a set of dummies who are so flat and two dimensional that I can't even attempt to put them to scrutiny. One thing I know for sure, I am never going to read that book again as I am already giving it away to any student in need of a free copy! And apart from the occasional beauty of its prose and the images which come to the forth every now and then, I regret spending so much time reading it.
Call me Ishmael. Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write a mighty book about a mighty theme and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting.