Moby Dick, or, The Whale - Hardcover

Melville, Herman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8422606453 ISBN 13: 9788422606451

Publisher: The Press of A. Colish, 1975

Synopsis

Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville’s masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Press of A. Colish
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8422606453
• ISBN 13: 9788422606451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Neimann LeRoy
• Edition number: 1