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Moby Dick

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'Call me Ishmael.'

So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an paean to whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod, from stern, Quaker First Mate Starbuck, to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg, are a vision of the world in microcosm, the pinnacle of Melville's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is a profound, poetic inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

Based on the Northwestern University Press edition, this Penguin Classics edition includes a critical introduction by Andrew Delbanco, as well as valuable explanatory notes, maps, illustrations and a glossary of nautical terms.

Herman Melville is now regarded as one of America's greatest novelists. Much of the material for his novels was drawn from his own experience as a seaman aboard whaling ships. He wrote his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851, and died in 1891.

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Series Title

Worldsworth Classics

Call Number

813.3 MEL m

Publisher

Hertfordshire, UK : Wordsworth Edition Limited., 2002

Collation

544p; bw; pbk

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781853260087

Classification

810

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Edition

Wordsworth Classics

Subject(s)

Adventure
Whales
Classics
Sea stories
Whaling
Captain Ahab (Fictional Character)
Ships Captain
Whaling Ships
Mentaly Ill
Fictions

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