Herman Melville's first major novel (Moby Dick, or the White Whale, Masquerade, or the Tempter, Mardi and the Journey There) is published in Russian for the first time. The plot of the book is quite simple: an American young man, “sick” of the sea, sets off from New York on a merchant ship to the English city of Liverpool. Memories of what he saw and experienced are intertwined with the author’s thoughts about the moral principles surrounding him, the concepts of human duty, honor and mercy. For a wide range of readers.