Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff.
On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 768 pages
ISBN-10: 1509826645
Item Weight: 0.8 lbs
Dimensions: 4.1 x 1.5 x 6.3 inches
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Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. Melville worked at various jobs before shipping on the whaler Achshnet in 1841. The next year he deserted, traveled the South Seas and joined the US Navy. After three years he retired and started to write. His first two novels were fictionalized accounts of his travels. In 1847 Melville married and wrote a series of potboiler novels for money. With Moby-Dick (1851) he changed course, but the novel's extravagant intensity lost him readers. Pierre (1852) fared no better, and after publishing one more novel Melville took a job as a customs inspector and turned to writing poetry. He died there in 1891; an unfinished novel, Billy Budd, Sailor, was published in 1924
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