Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Herman Melville

ISBN 10

067978327X

ISBN 13

9780679783275

Tags

Classics, Sea Adventures, Literary, Literature

Description

Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell KentFirst published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day. - from Amzon

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