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Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1992, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWordsworth Editions, The Limited
ISBN-101853260088
ISBN-139781853260087
eBay Product ID (ePID)23210
Product Key Features
Book TitleMoby Dick
Number of Pages544 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicClassics, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorHerman Melville
Book SeriesClassics Library
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight5.4 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Number of Volumes1 vol.
SynopsisMoby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy., With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
