Moby Dick
$14.82
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
5 May 1992
Summary
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’.
‘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, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853260087 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853260088 |
| Author: | Herman Melville, David Herd, Dr Keith Carabine |
| Publisher: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Imprint: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 1992 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Wordsworth Classics |
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About The Author
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who received wide acclaim for his earliest novels, such as “Typee” and “Redburn”.
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