Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics) book by Herman Melville

Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics) book by Herman Melville

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Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics) book by Herman Melville

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. Bent as the crew is on Ahab s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of 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, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury


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  • Paperback
  • 492 pages
  • English
  • 0883017067
  • 9781853260087

About Herman Melville

herman melville was an american novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. his first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestselle Read More about Herman Melville
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