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Moby-Dick, or, The whale

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An edition of Moby Dick (1851)

Moby-Dick, or, The whale

1st Vintage Books/The Library of America ed.

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.78 ·
  • 124 Ratings
  • 975 Want to read
  • 61 Currently reading
  • 174 Have read

"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale." Key letters from Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne are printed at the end of this volume. - Back cover.

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Moby Dick: or The Whale
1965, Folkways Records & Service
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1892, United States Book Company
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Moby Dick
Publish date unknown, Dean & Son
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Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
Whale.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.3
Library of Congress
PS2384 .M6 1991, PS2384.M6 1991

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Pagination
xxix, 660 p. ;
Number of pages
660

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1889059M
ISBN 10
0679725253
LCCN
90050621
OCLC/WorldCat
23286500
Library Thing
15540
Goodreads
1444203

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