Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
(Author)
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Description
'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of 'some unknown but still reasoning thing'. Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards 'the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale'.
Product Details
Price
$5.95
$5.53
Publisher
Bantam Classics
Publish Date
February 01, 1981
Pages
670
Dimensions
4.26 X 6.97 X 1.13 inches | 0.74 pounds
Language
English
Type
Mass Market Paperbound
EAN/UPC
9780553213119
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About the Author
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), American Fictions, and Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature.
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."
--F. O. Matthiessen
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
