Includes: THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED MOBY-DICKWhen Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day
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The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville' The frail gunwales bent in collapsed & snapped as both jaws like an enormous shears sliding further aft bit the craft completely in twain' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature the mad raging Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg & upon which he has sworn vengeance at any cost A creation unlike any other this is an epic story of fatal monomania & the deepest dreams & obsessions of mankind The Penguin English Library
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred & suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast dangerous & unknowable as the sea itself More than just a novel of adventure this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature Written with wonderfully redemptive humour Moby Dick is a profound & timeless inquiry into character faith & the nature of perception ...

The original ' Great American Novel' Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk' 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 & evil More than just a novel of adventure more than an paean to whaling lore & 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 & 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 & 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 & died in 1891 If you enjoyed Moby-Dick you may like Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote also available in Penguin Classics' After reading Moby-Dick you will have enhanced your sense of wonder you will have increased the size of your universe'E M Forster' One of the strangest & most wonderful books in the world It moves awe in the soul'D H Lawrence

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