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    Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads etc.
    Moby Dick, or, The Whale
    • Moby Dick, or, The Whale

      • 704 pages
      • 25 hours of reading

      When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its quarry. One of the great American novels, if not the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil.

      Moby Dick, or, The Whale2002
      4.0
    • The first classical collection of Scottish Songs and Ballads was originally published in 1776. The work, in two volumes, is divided into three parts as follows: PART ONE, Heroic Ballads and Fragments; PART TWO, Sentimental and Love Songs; PART THREE, Comic and Humorous Songs.

      Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads etc.1973