Moby-Dick

Author: Melville, Herman

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 24 April 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Penguin English Library' series.

Paperback | 720 pages
196 x 128 x 32 | 488g

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...'Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind.

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