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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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Moby Dick (Hardcover)
Herman Melville
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R296
R221
Discovery Miles 2 210
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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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Moby Dick (Paperback)
Herman Melville
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R230
R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
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Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman
Melville's Moby Dick. Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a
timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a
searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral
ambiguity. Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of
astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea
story ever told and one of the great classics of literature.
'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;
to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee;
for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...'
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