Description
Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that “reaped” his leg. His pursuit becomes an obsession, and the novel offers a diabolical study of how a man turns into a fanatic. At the same time, it is a hymn to democracy. Although the crew is committed to Ahab’s appalling crusade, it also represents a cooperative community at work, with everyone dependent on everyone else and each person responsible for the others’ safety. Among the crew is Ishmael, the narrator, an ordinary sailor and an extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar and transcendent, his story is above all an education in whaling and in the art of writing. Expanding to match its “mighty theme”—not only the whale but everything sublime—Melville draws on the great literature of the world. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
Information
Author: Melville Herman
Language: English
Publication date: August 15, 2022
Manufacturer: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Classic literature in english
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 604
ISBN/EAN: 9781840228304