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"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
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Moby Dick, Herman Melville
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- Released
- 1994
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- Title
- Moby Dick
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Herman Melville
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN10
- 0140623175
- ISBN13
- 9780140623178
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Adventure, Classics, American Literature, Adapted for Film, Seas and Oceans, Seafaring, Hunters, Classicism, Sailors, Whales, Whaling, Josef Jungmann Award, Moby Dick
- First published
- 1851
- Original title
- Moby Dick or the White Whale
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.