Moby-Dick

or, The Whale

Herman Melville, Elizabeth Hardwick, Rockwell Kent

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English

Modern Library Inc
15 December 2000

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick

Illustrations by Rockwell Kent

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe 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.

By: Herman Melville
Introduction by: Elizabeth Hardwick, Rockwell Kent
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 584g
ISBN: 9780679783275
ISBN 10: 067978327X
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 896
Publication Date: 15 December 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), American Fictions, and Seduction and Betrayal- Women and Literature.

Reviews for Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab. --F. O. Matthiessen Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab. --F. O. Matthiessen