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Moby-Dick
     
Moby-Dick
(1851) a novel by Herman Melville about a man called Captain Ahab who risks his life and the lives of the other people on his ship by hunting a large, powerful white whale called Moby-Dick. The book is famous of containing a lot of information about hunting whales and for being very long. Many people consider it to be one of the greatest American novels.
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