Moby Dick
by Herman Melville | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0553213113 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0553213113 Global Overview for this book
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first published 1851 -- 594 pages -- Paperback -- a Bantam Classic - Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Child Walcutt
Back Cover: No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental "Moby-Dick." Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic -- a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told.
Far ahead of its own time, "Moby-Dick" was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D. H. Lawrence wrote, "Moby-Dick commands a stillness in the soul, an awe ... [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."
Back Cover: No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental "Moby-Dick." Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic -- a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told.
Far ahead of its own time, "Moby-Dick" was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D. H. Lawrence wrote, "Moby-Dick commands a stillness in the soul, an awe ... [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."
