Moby Dick (AmazonClassics Edition)

Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Nevertheless, this old man's was a patient hammer wielded by a patient arm. No murmur, no impatience, no petulance did come from him. Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart. And so it was.—Most mi