Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
- ISBN-10
- 0140390847
- ISBN-13
- 9780140390841
- Series
- Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
- Category
- Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
- Pages
- 654
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- Herman Melville
Description
On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed captain hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Melville transforms the little world of the whale-ship into a crucible where mankind¿s fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary, compressed intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a most profoundly imaginative literary creation. With an afterword by Nigel Cliff. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Moby Dick: Ahab's Revenge
By William Behr MuellerMoby Dick: Ahab's Revenge
-
Moby-Dick: A Pop-up Book
By Sam ItaThis phenomenal work has been createdy multi-talented artist Sam Ita, apprentice to Robert Sabuda, one ofhe world's master paper engineers. Ita will take you on a journey unlikeny you've experienced before!
-
Moby Dick
By Herman MelvilleThe work first appeared as The Whale in London in October 1851, and then under its definitive title Moby-Dick in New York in November. The whale, however, appears in both the London and New York editions as "Moby Dick," with no hyphen.
-
Moby Dick
By Herman Melville, W. T. RobinsonA classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale, who defied capture.
-
Moby Dick
By Herman MelvilleBut more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, this book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America.
-
Moby Dick
By Herman MelvilleA simplified, abridged version of Captain Ahab's search for the white whale, accompanied by a short biography of Herman Melville and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of determination.