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Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Paperback)
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|Short Description for Moby DickTells 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, this book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 28 April 1994
- Format: Paperback 544 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Adventure
- ISBN 13: 9780140620627 ISBN 10: 0140620621
- Sales rank: 4,605
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Moby ****
Why, you may ask, should one bother to read a great big mid-nineteenth century book about an ill-fated attempt to kill a great big white whale? Well, Moby Dick's firmly established place in the heart of the canon as one of the finest American novels ever written might, perhaps, give you pause. But still, you might think, an old whaling tale is not for me. If one is going to read 500-odd pages, gathered into 135 chapters, you might protest, a more relevant and contemporary book will be chosen! But the angry, fixated, dictatorial Captain Ahab, and his terrible, obsessive mania to find and destroy the white whale, and the part his ship of outcasts play in this drama of revenge, is utterly compelling. And, frankly, frighteningly modern. No doubt, Moby Dick is a challenging read -- Melville plays with form and offers us a lot of information which might at first feel superfluous to the main story -- but its rewards are legion. "Call me Ishmael" may be one of the best-known opening sentences in English literature, and once you've read it, you'll be hooked into reading one of the best novels swimming around. by Mark Thwaite
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