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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-04-26 Pages: 720 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.The frail gunwales bent in. collapsed. and snapped. as both jaws. like an enormous shears. sliding further aft. bit the craft completely in twain ... Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad. raging. Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahabs insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg. and upon which he has sworn vengeance. at any cost. A creation unlike any other. this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English. from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the culturally and spiritually diverse crew of the Pequod, a 19th century whaling ship. The Pequod is on its last voyage out of New Bedford, Mass, in pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale which has been Ahab's obsessional quarry and bitter adversary for many years. Narrated by sole survivor Ishmael, the tale forms a complex fictional fusion, combining a wealth of literary symbolism, hidden meaning and philosophical debate with adventure narrative and a detailed historical account of the 19th century whaling trade. --Emily Lowson
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