Moby-Dick
WORLD LITERATURE
Herman Melville
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson
CEFR A1
Word count 3,650
American English
‘My friend Queequeg and I are looking for whaling work,’ Ishmael says.
Ishmael is a sailor from New York. With Queequeg the harpooner, he takes work on Captain Ahab’s whaling-ship, the Pequod. The ship’s first mate, Starbuck, wants to hunt whales for their oil. But Captain Ahab isn’t interested. In the hunt for a white whale twenty years earlier, the captain lost a leg. So now Ahab wants revenge on the white whale – Moby-Dick! Who lives? Who dies? And what happens to Ishmael?
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