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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Moby Dick"
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Moby Dick
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Melville, Herman

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…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781853260087
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12,5 x 19,5; Pbk; Bw; 544p
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813.3 MEL m
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Moby-Dick
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Buckley, ChristopherMelville, HermanRenker, Elizabeth

Moby-Dick is at once a thrilling adventure tale, a timeless allegory, and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At its heart is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab’s whaling ship, this is the story of that hai…

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Signet Classics Edition
ISBN/ISSN
9780451532282
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604+xvii; bw; pbk
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Signet Classics
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813.3 MEL m