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[[File:Wrong Hands Moby-Dick.jpg|thumb|300px|link=Wrong Hands|Now that we're caught up on [[Everybody Knows That|what everybody knows]], onward to the article.]]▼
| title = Moby-Dick
| original title = Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
| image = Herman Melville
| caption = Wrong Hands Moby-Dick.jpg
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| genre = Epic, Sea story
| publication date = October 18, 1851
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{{quote|''Call me Ishmael.''}}
Described by many as the greatest American novel, '''''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale''''', by [[Herman Melville]], is either a story about [[Animal Nemesis|the hunt of a wicked whale by a madman]] that [[Shown Their Work|shows Melville's work]], or [[Author Filibuster|an encyclopedia on whaling and cetology]] with a [[Framing Device]]. You choose.
Either way, the plot follows a man that, infatuated with the sea (apparently, it's a periodical thing), decides to go aboard a whaling ship to try out how whaling feels. He and his [[Noble Savage|newly-met best friend Queequeg]] go upon the ''Pequod'' under the command of the [[Determinator|monomaniac Captain Ahab]], and eventually get in the middle of his maniac hunt for Moby Dick, the eponymous "White Whale" that ate his leg. Tragedy ensues.
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