Moby Dick Wordsworth Collector s Edition

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

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. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' not only the whale but all things sublime Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781840228304
Published: August 2022

Number of pages: 608
Width: 129 mm
Height: 178 mm
Depth: 48 mm

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd