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Moby Dick by Herman. Melville and Library of America Staff (1991, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679725253

ISBN-139780679725251

eBay Product ID (ePID)23182

Product Key Features

Book TitleMoby Dick

Number of Pages672 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary

Publication Year1991

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorHerman. Melville, Library of America Staff

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight22.2 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN90-050621

Reviews"Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab." --F. O. Matthiessen, "Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab." --F. O. Matthiessen From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230302

Dewey Decimal813/.3

SynopsisMoby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong idolatrous quest. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or as a critical inquiry into the effects of reducing life to symbols, Moby-Dick also offers colorful and often comic glimpses of life aboard a whaling ship. For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome paperback books. A distinguished writer has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a chronology of the author's life an essay on the text, and notes.

LC Classification NumberPS2384.M6 1991