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Found 3 from your keywords: subject="Whaling Ships"
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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
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9780451532282
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604+xvii; bw; pbk
Series Title
Signet Classics
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813.3 MEL m
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Moby Dick
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Melville, Herman

'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 haunti…

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Wordsworth Classics
ISBN/ISSN
9781853260087
Collation
544p; bw; pbk
Series Title
Worldsworth Classics
Call Number
813.3 MEL m