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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

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Steve Groves said: " Possibly the wierdest yet most compelling book I have ever read. I had a Penguin Classics version in the '80's with notes almost as long as the book itself. I now know more about whaling than I ever needed to know. ...more "

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