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Moby dick

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville. 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

823 MEL m

Publisher

Hertfordshire, UK : Wordsworth Edition Limited., 1999

Collation

544 p. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781853260087

Classification

800

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Edition

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Subject(s)

Literature
Adventure
Classics
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Statement of Responsibility

Herman Melville

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Level

High School

Book Segment

Select -- Reading for pleasure -- Program Reference

Reading Level

Independent

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