a well chosen anthology of Herman Melville's most thought provoking texts in what Schellenberg has called "Melville's most lavender moments." Without preaching his stance, Schellenberg adeptly introduces each selection and then allows...
The work is an epic sea-story of Captain Ahabâs voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale. It initially received mixed reviews and at Melvilleâs death in 1891 was remembered, if at all, as a childrenâ...
Part of Penguinâs beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design....
At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable seaâand Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab&a...
While Herman Melville is best known for his epic novel Moby-Dick, in 1861 the American Civil War began. Melville had years of experience sailing on whaling ships and immediately went to enlist in the Navy. He was chagrined when he was turned down for heal...
Moby Dick is a literary classic. It charts the adventures of a madman as he pits his wits against a creature, huge and dangerous, set against the haunting background of the sea and its legends and myths. This is not a book about whaling, more a book about...
"Call me Ishmael," Moby-Dick begins, in one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western literature. The name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts - in the opening paragraph of Moby-Dick, Ishmael tells the reader that...
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 completely in twain..' Moby-Dick is one of the most...
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, best known for Moby-Dick. His first three books were very successful -- Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life; Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; and...
Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab and his men find the great white whale? A young sailor, Ishmael, tells the story of their excit...
Sail to the exotic Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick." Let History and Legend, Fiction and Fact, Myth and Mystery swirl around you as you enter "The Encantadas," a unique island world stretching along our...