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 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.
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