Moby-Dick

Tells the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost.

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 expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab''s insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind.

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• | Author: Herman Melville
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 26, 2012
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780141198958
• | ISBN-10: 0141198958