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Moby Dick

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury 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.

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Series Title

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Call Number

813.3 MEL m

Publisher

Hertfordshire,United Kingdom : Wordsworth Editions Limited., 2002

Collation

12,5 x 19,5; Pbk; Bw; 544p

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781853260087

Classification

810

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Subject(s)

Whales
Sea stories
Whaling
Whaling Ships
Ship Captains
Mentally Ill
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Moby Dick (Melville, Herman)

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