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Moby Dick: Or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library classics
A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.
Moby-Dick: Penguin Drop Caps by Herman Melville
Category: Classics
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet for each author's surname. Jessica Hische, a superstar in the world of type design whose work ...Show more
Moby Dick: Penguin Readers Level 7 by Herman Melville
Category: Children's Fiction
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting cont ...Show more
Moby Dick (Walker Illustrated Classics) by Herman Melville
Category: Classics
<p>"Walker Illustrated Classics" is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read. The classics h ...Show more
Moby-Dick (Word Cloud Classics) by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab...
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell Kent Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The 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 Captai ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is a masterful study of obsession. This "Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. 'Call me Ishmael.' So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest wo ...Show more
Redburn by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, "Redburn" charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets H ...Show more
The Happy Failure by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Short Story Collections
"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville, ...Show more
Typee - A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In this classic of travel and adventure literature, Herman Melville drew upon his adventures in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a prisoner of the Typee people. Like the novel's narrator, Melville jumped ship from a whaling vessel and was held in benign captivity by an indigenous tribe with a repu ...Show more