Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is a reissue edition published by Macmillan Collector’s Library on November 1, 2016. This beautifully bound pocket-sized edition features 768 pages and is designed for book lovers, showcasing high-quality paper, real cloth binding, ribbon markers, and gilt edges. The narrative follows the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the obsessive Captain Ahab, as they navigate treacherous seas in pursuit of the elusive White Whale.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of ideas and imagery throughout the text, with moments of irony and beauty that contribute to its status as a significant work in American literature. The story delves into themes of humanity’s fears, faith, and frailties, set against the backdrop of action and adventure on the high seas. This edition also includes an afterword by Nigel Cliff, providing additional context for this classic tale that continues to resonate with readers.
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.
Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.
This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff.
On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind’s fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate.
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