$23.38
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
23 May 2012
Summary
Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198958 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198958 |
| Author: | Herman Melville |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 23 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 34mm |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
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About The Author
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.
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