Melville Herman - Moby Dick - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 work: all hands dependent on all hands each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael the novel's narrator ordinary sailor and extraordinary reader. Digressive allusive vulgar transcendent the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his mighty theme not only the whale but all things sublime Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
Title: Moby Dick
Author(s): Melville Herman
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Barcode: 9781840228304
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2022
Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions
Category: Classic Fiction