In America, in the rich family estate of Saddle Meadows, the Glendinning family leads a luxurious and carefree existence - Mrs. Glendinning rotates in the upper circles of local society; her son, Pierre, an athlete and a talented young writer who gained his first fame, is going to marry the lovely Lucy, whom he seems to have a crush on. But an accidental meeting with the mysterious beauty Isabel threatens to destroy Pierre's entire happy life, as she opens the veil of gloomy family secrets......

The book includes short stories and tales of the famous American writer Herman Melville, who became famous for the great novel Moby Dick, or White Whale. Small prose, which became a field of bold experiments for the author, prompted critics to compare Melville with Gogol and Dostoevsky, as well as call the harbinger of creativity....

Herman Melville's tale is a grotesque narrative of a poor office worker whose unusual behavior breaks the usual rhythm of business life and makes others doubt the correctness of the world order....

To evaluate this book you have to forget how many times it was named “the greatest American novel” and “a masterpiece of the world literature”. Let the reader not be scared of the labels put on the book during the last hundred years. It is definitely the great success that “Moby-Dick” is not included into the school program. There is no sense to try to describe this novel. In case you will finish reading and decide that you understand everything, you will have to read it again....