Moby-Dick
or, The Whale
$40.50
- Paperback
896 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2000
Summary
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell Kent
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 thr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679783275 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067978327X |
| Author: | Herman Melville, Elizabeth Hardwick, Rockwell Kent |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 896 |
| Edition: | 2000th |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 39mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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” 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“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
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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