No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick.??Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsess
Featured title on PBS’s The Great American Read in 2018Ignoring prophecies of doom, the seafarer Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling expedition that is an obsession for the ship’s captain,
When Ishmael joined the crew of a whaling ship called the Pequod, he was eager for a life of adventure on the high seas. But he didn't know that he was about to embark on would be the adventure of a l
Herman Melville was already considered to be a successful author when he wrote Moby-Dick in just under two years. Yet despite his earlier success, the novel was widely misunderstood by its 19th-centu
Evans brings together essays from several Melville scholars to provide everyday readers and students with critical insight into the text of Mobey Dick itself, as well as several of its historical cont
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold C hristmas Day, he has noidea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strangecaptain, Ahab, is in the gri
A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea t
The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a w
Join Captain Ahab, an eerily compelling madman, as he pursues an unholy war against a creation as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. In his monumaniacal quest, Ahab focuses his distille
In his imagination Melville lived as well as wrote Moby Dick, his great epic of whales and whaling. It tells the story of Ahab, Captain of the Pequod, and of his revenge-mission and insane pursuit of
"Call me Ishmael". So begins Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's epic account of the last voyage of the ill-fated whaling ship Pequod, and its captain's obsessive pursuit of the legendary white whale that ma
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholars
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge
Journey to the heart of the sea with this larger-than-life classic.Regarded as a Great American Novel, Moby Dick is the ultimate tale of seeking vengeance.Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epi
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 compl
