Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - ISBN: 9780553213119
Paperback
Obsession, revenge, and the sea: Ahab’s hunt for the white whale.

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  • Paperback

    704 pages

  • Release Date

    1 February 1998

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Summary

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553213119
ISBN-10:0553213113
Author:Herman Melville
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Bantam Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:704
Release Date:1 February 1998
Weight:318g
Dimensions:175mm x 106mm x 28mm
Series:Bantam Classic
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Critics Review

“Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab.”–F. O. Matthiessen“From the Trade Paperback edition.”

About The Author

Herman Melville

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), American Fictions, and Seduction and Betrayal- Women and Literature.

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