Moby Dick, or the Whale (Illustrated by Rockwell Kent)
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher VINTAGE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780679600107
- ISBN10 0679600108
- Type BOOK
- Pages 866
- Published 1992
- Language English
- Bookbinding Board
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English LiteratureMoby Dick, or the Whale (Illustrated by Rockwell Kent)
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
llustrated by Rockwell Kent ? Nominated as one of America?s best-loved novels by PBS?s The Great American Read
First published in 1851, Herman Melville?s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick?s words, ?the greatest novel in American literature.? The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel?s narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.