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Moby Dick (Hardcover) Loot Price: R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
Moby Dick (Hardcover): Herman Melville

Moby Dick (Hardcover)

Herman Melville

Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions

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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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Imprint: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions
Release date: August 2022
Authors: Herman Melville
Dimensions: 178 x 129 x 48mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 978-1-84022-830-4
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General
Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
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LSN: 1-84022-830-X
Barcode: 9781840228304

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