When a wandering sailor looking to be hired onto a whaling ship finds himself on the Penquod, little does he know the dire fate that awaits him and his crewmates. For the ship's captain, Ahab, is going insane and swears vengence against the fearsome white whale, Moby Dick, that costs him his leg.
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When a wandering sailor looking to be hired onto a whaling ship finds himself on the Penquod, little does he know the dire fate that awaits him and his crewmates. For the ship's captain, Ahab, is going insane and swears vengence against the fearsome white whale, Moby Dick, that costs him his leg.
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Very nice book, and extremely prompt shipping...thanks again!
milly
Oct 13, 2011
Hardcover in great shape, came exactly as described. This is a somewhat scarce,annotated edition. And, Moby Dick ( with or without the annotations), is THE single greatest book ever written.
joekc6nlx
Apr 24, 2008
The Great American Novel
When I studied this book in college, we discussed what Melville was describing in this story. It's not only about a young man's transformation through his experiences on the Pequod, nor is it only about Ahab's obsession with killing Moby Dick to the exclusion of all else. It's about man's struggle against Nature, the attempts by man to change, control, and eventually overcome Nature. Melville understood that man could never accomplish this, but would only end up destroying himself as Ahab destroyed himself by harpooning Moby Dick.
In my opinion, this is still the greatest American novel ever written, not only for the twin stories of Ishmael and Ahab, but also educational in how whalers lived, worked, and sometimes died.