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Moby Dick

American  
[moh-bee dik] / ˈmoʊ bi ˈdɪk /

noun

  1. a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.

Moby Dick Cultural  

  1. (1851) A novel by Herman Melville. Its central character, Captain Ahab, engages in a mad, obsessive quest for Moby Dick, a great white whale. The novel opens with the famous sentence “Call me Ishmael.”

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From Salon • May 6, 2013

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