Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)

Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury 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.
Country USA
Brand Wordsworth
Manufacturer Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781853260087
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781853260087
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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