Dimensions
128 x 198 x 35mm
The epic tale of Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale.
Moby-Dick, the white whale: emblem of nature yet unnaturally pale, tender and violent, god and demon, an enigma to which Ahab is bound by ropes of vengeful obsession. The "Pequod": whaler out of Nantucket, with its polyglot world crew bound upon a voyage for spermwhale, a ship of the damned driven by its ungodly captain to the edge of the void. Ishmael: named for a Biblical outcast, narrator, masthead philosopher, sole survivor.
Published in 1851, 'Moby-Dick' represents a high point in American literature and has the drive and intensity of the greatest modern novels.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, text summary, selected criticism and chronology of Melville's life and times.
