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Moby-Dick

By Herman Melville
Series: The Penguin English Library
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Moby-Dick is a tale of obsession and adventure set at sea. It follows Captain Ahab's relentless pursuit of a giant white whale, driven by vengeance after the creature maimed him. Through the eyes of the sailor Ishmael, the story explores themes of revenge, fate, and humanity's relationship with the natural world.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by epic sea adventures and the complex interplay between man and nature. It's a gripping tale that delves into themes of obsession, revenge, and friendship, with richly drawn characters and vivid descriptions that immerse you in the 19th-century whaling world.

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Moby-Dick

Tells 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.

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Launching a major new paperback series - Penguin English Library.

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.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Series: The Penguin English Library

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141198958

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 487g

Pages: 720

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Fiction General Fiction Herman Melville Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: The Penguin English Library

About the Author

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, published posthumously in 1924. The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor are published together in the Penguin English Library.

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