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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

A captain sails the whole ocean to settle a grudge with one fish. Somewhere around the chapter on whale anatomy, most readers stop reading it as a novel and start reading it as a confession. I recommend patience; it rewards the stubborn.

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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 14 hr 25 min
Where to find it
On the Sea shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #2701. In the public domain in the United States.

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