'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'
In Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy.
With striking typography presented in an authentic broadsheet style, here is an adventure in book craft and storytelling.
An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious ...
A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking.
From this time Tomlinson and Murry used the columns of the Nation and Athenaeum in promoting the reputation of Melville and his masterpiece.64 That reputation culminated in London in the early 1920's as statesmen, scientists, ...
Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Moby-Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy.
Eleven critical essays examine the symbolism, philosophy, and themes in Moby-Dick.
This book holds an important place among the World Classics.