Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553213113
ISBN-139780553213119
eBay Product ID (ePID)27730
Product Key Features
Book TitleMoby-Dick
Number of Pages704 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1981
TopicClassics, Literary, Sea Stories
FeaturesReprint
GenreFiction
AuthorHerman. Melville
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length6.7 in
Item Width4.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab." --F. O. Matthiessen From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.3
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel's narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.
This book is a long, difficult read. Parts of it are incomprehensible ! But the story is interesting and filled with details (some of which are not true). I can see why this book is rated one of the great classics.