Moby-Dick

Name: Moby-Dick
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141198958
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By (author): Herman Melville

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...'

Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind.

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Product Details

Format: Paperback
Weight: 489g
Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
Publication Date: 26 Apr 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780141198958

About Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee Omoo Redburn and White-Jacket. However his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation such as Bartleby the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then for nineteen years as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.