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> With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review' > 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. -- Back Cover

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Author

Herman Melville; David Herd

Publisher

WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LIMITED

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781573353793

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adventure

Rating

3.47 / 5 (620 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13