Moby-Dick (Dover Thrift Editions)
A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul. A literary...
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A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul. A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dick represents the ultimate human struggle.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486432151 (0486432157)
ASIN: 0486432157
Publish date: 2003-08-29
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
19th Century,
Fiction
What an amazing novel; surpassed my already high expectations. I see how it could polarize readers, with the archaic speech patterns and soliloquies of some of the characters, and long sections of seemingly plotless, essayistic discourse about whales and whaling, but for me, that's what gave it it's...
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