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Moby Dick

by Herman Melville
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"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "'Moby-Dick' is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'..." —William Faulkner "What a book Melville has written! It gives me an idea of much greater power than his preceding ones. It hardly seemed to me that the review of it, in the 'Literary World', did justice to its best points." —Nathaniel Hawthorne "The greatest novel in American literature." —Elizabeth Hardwick "'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual — the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century." —Nathaniel Philbrick A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel, and a wealth of information on whales and 19th-century whaling, Melville's greatest work presents an imaginative and thrilling picture of life at sea, as well as a portrait of heroic determination. The author's keen powers of observation and firsthand knowledge of shipboard life (he served aboard a whaler himself) were key ingredients in crafting a maritime story that dramatically examines the conflict between man and nature. "A valuable addition to the literature of the day," said American journalist Horace Greeley on the publication of Moby-Dick in 1851 — a classic piece of understatement about a literary classic now considered by many as "the great American novel." Read and pondered by generations, the novel remains an unsurpassed account of the ultimate human struggle against the indifference of nature and the awful power of fate.
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Publisher: Pandora's Box

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  • Release date: April 18, 2024

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Fantasy Fiction Literature Thriller

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Lexile® Measure:740
Text Difficulty:3-4

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "'Moby-Dick' is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'..." —William Faulkner "What a book Melville has written! It gives me an idea of much greater power than his preceding ones. It hardly seemed to me that the review of it, in the 'Literary World', did justice to its best points." —Nathaniel Hawthorne "The greatest novel in American literature." —Elizabeth Hardwick "'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual — the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century." —Nathaniel Philbrick A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel, and a wealth of information on whales and 19th-century whaling, Melville's greatest work presents an imaginative and thrilling picture of life at sea, as well as a portrait of heroic determination. The author's keen powers of observation and firsthand knowledge of shipboard life (he served aboard a whaler himself) were key ingredients in crafting a maritime story that dramatically examines the conflict between man and nature. "A valuable addition to the literature of the day," said American journalist Horace Greeley on the publication of Moby-Dick in 1851 — a classic piece of understatement about a literary classic now considered by many as "the great American novel." Read and pondered by generations, the novel remains an unsurpassed account of the ultimate human struggle against the indifference of nature and the awful power of fate.
Expand title description text
Fantasy Fiction Literature Thriller
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Pandora's Box

    Kindle Book
    Release date: April 18, 2024

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9789897786648
    Release date: April 18, 2024

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9789897786648
    File size: 2777 KB
    Release date: April 18, 2024

    Open EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9789897786648
    File size: 2782 KB
    Release date: April 18, 2024

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    OverDrive Read
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  • Languages
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  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 740
    Text Difficulty: 3-4
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