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Moby Dick
Paperback
Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions, Book 17
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9780062085641
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jun 7 2011
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Melville's classic tale of obsession and the sea, one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature, Moby Dick is a riveting literary epic, exploring rage, hope, destiny, and the deepest questions of moral truth.
Call me Ishmael.
Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature--a sea adventure story detailing the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod's captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab's former vessel and left him crippled. As the Pequod sails deeper through the nights and into the sea, the divisions between man and nature begin to blur--so do the lines between good and evil, as the fates of the ship's crewmen become increasingly unclear...
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