Moby Dick |
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Author:
| Melville, Herman |
Introduction by:
| Renker, Elizabeth |
Series title: | Signet Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-451-52699-1 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Signet |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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Moby-Dickis at once a thrilling adventure tale, a timeless allegory, and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At its heart is the powerful, unknowable sea - and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth which whale that crippled him. narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab's whaling ship, here is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared...
More Description Moby-Dickis at once a thrilling adventure tale, a timeless allegory, and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At its heart is the powerful, unknowable sea - and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth which whale that crippled him. narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab's whaling ship, here is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God's most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.