9780130246622

Herman Melville's Moby Dick/4 Cassettes

Dixon

ISBN 10: 013024662X / 0-13-024662-X
ISBN 13: 9780130246622
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Editorial Reviews:
Review:

"High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased, soaring speculation, a style as many-coloured as the theme, yet always good, and often admirable; fertile fancy, ingenious construction, playful learning, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime, without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in [MOBY-DICK]."

Albert Camus

Review:

"Of all the extraordinary books from the pen of Herman Melville this is out and out the most extraordinary. Who would have looked for philosophy in whales, or for poetry in blubber.Yet few books which professedly deal in metaphysics, or claim theparentage of the muses, contain as much true philosophy and as much genuine poetry as the tale of the Pequod's whaling expedition....It is not a mere tale of adventures, but a whole philosophy of life, that it unfolds."

London Morning Advertiser, 10/24/1851