Moby Dick; or, the Whale
Published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and in New York City a month later as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is Herman Melville s novel Moby Dick. Nathaniel Hawthorne is honoured with this publication. Moby Dick is considered by many to be Melville s finest work and one of the finest novels ever written in the United States.