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Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)
£3.99
MELVILLE, HERMAN
Product Details
ISBN: 9781853260087
Author: MELVILLE, HERMAN
Pages: 544
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. While the crew is bent on Ahab’s appalling crusade, they also represent 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. He is an ordinary sailor but an extraordinary reader. The story Ishmael tells is:
- Digressive,
- Allusive,
- Vulgar,
- Transcendent.
Above all, it is an education:
- In the practice of whaling,
- In the art of writing.
Expanding to match his ‘mighty theme’ – not only the whale but all things sublime – Melville draws from the world’s great literature.
Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
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