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  Moby Dick (Wadsworth Collection) (Paperback) By (author) Herman Melville, Introduction and notes by David Herd, Series edited by Dr. Keith Carabine

  

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  Short Description for Moby DickMoby 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.
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  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
  • Published: 05 May 1992
  • Format: Paperback 544 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Adventure
  • ISBN 13: 9781853260087 ISBN 10: 1853260088
  • Sales rank: 2,063

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• 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.