Moby-Dick: Herman Melville (Macmillan Collector’s Library) - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509826645 ISBN 13: 9781509826643

Verlag: Collector´S Library, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Moby-Dick features an afterword by Nigel Cliff.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles., Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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Much of the impact of Melville's book on any fierce new convert is implicit in that sense of time travel. Sometimes I read it and I feel like I'm going backward, fast. It reads like something that was written before books were invented, yet it is utterly modern -- Philip Hoare * The New Yorker * Melville has himself become part of the literary canon. A fixture. -- Ian McGuire * Independent * Moby-Dick is, for me, the supreme American novel, the source and the inspiration of everything that follows in the American literary canon -- Robert McCrum, `The 100 best novels' * Guardian *

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Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff. On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate.

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• Verlag: Collector´S Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1509826645
• ISBN 13: 9781509826643
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 767