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Moby Dick

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It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers.

A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.

In part, "Moby-Dick" is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.

But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America.

Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, "Moby-Dick" is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
0140620621 / 9780140620627
Paperback
813.3
25/01/2007
United Kingdom
English
Classics
536 p.
19 cm
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Quiz No: 208624, Points 4.00, Book Level 5.90,
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