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Moby-Dick: The Whale

Author
Herman Melville
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
516 pages
ISBN
9781909175440
Published
15 July 2012
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Herman Melville
  • Moby-Dick
  • Moby
  • American Romanticism
  • Romanticism
  • Classic
  • American novel
  • obsession
  • monomania
  • revenge

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Moby-Dick is a novel by Herman Melville that tells the story of a whaling ship called the Pequod and its captain, Ahab. The novel is considered to be one of the Great American Novels, and it has been praised for its literary qualities and its exploration of themes such as obsession and revenge. Moby-Dick is also notable for its detailed descriptions of whaling scenes and its use of vernacular language.

Author

Herman Melville (1819–1891) wrote the American epic that almost nobody wanted until it was too late. Moby-Dick began as a whale hunt and became scripture, encyclopaedia, sermon, and storm — a novel that thinks in every direction at once. Melville had been to sea as a young man; Typee made him briefly famous for Polynesian adventure, then the public cooled as his books grew stranger and more metaphysical. He died in relative obscurity.

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