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Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship "Pequod", had one of his legs bitten off by the ferocious and clever white whale Moby-Dick during a whaling process. Therefore, he was full of revenge and wanted to hunt down the white whale. He even lost his rationality and became a dictatorial fanatic. His ship traveled almost all over the world, and after many twists and turns, he finally encountered Moby Dick. After three days of tracking, he hit the white whale with a harpoon, but the ship was hit by the white whale. Ahab was entangled in the rope on the harpoon and was taken into the sea. All the people on the ship fell into the sea, and only the sailor Ishmael (a name in the Bible, meaning an abandoned person) was saved and came to tell the story to people. The author gave Moby-Dick the color white to symbolize innocence and terror, and the white whale to symbolize the mixture of good and evil, which is also the basic condition of the human world. This novel has become a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation due to its rich ideological content, epic scale and mature and thoughtful writing style.

"The Applewood Table and Other Brief Notes" collects twelve uncollected and unpublished short stories by the great American writer Herman Melville during his lifetime, most of which have been translated into Chinese for the first time. Melville discovered the strange relationship between people and things, wrote about the situation of people who were impoverished or lost their past, and explored fate... With powerful ridicule and fervent care, he maintained human dignity between chaos and pretense. I would like to publish this collection of short stories to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Melville's birth.

"Moby-Dick" is a novel with ocean themes published in 1851 by the 19th-century American novelist Herman Melville. The novel describes the story of Captain Ahab chasing and killing Moby Dick, the white whale (actually a white sperm whale), and finally perishing with the white whale. The story creates an atmosphere where people are sailing on the sea and encountering various dangers and even death at any time. It is the author's masterpiece.