Moby-Dick

Herman Melville author Nigel Cliff editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:6th Oct '16

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Moby-Dick cover

Herman Melville's classic American novel

Complete and unabridged.

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.

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 *
Melville has himself become part of the literary canon. A fixture. -- Ian McGuire * Independent *
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 *

ISBN: 9781509826643

Dimensions: 159mm x 104mm x 39mm

Weight: 376g

768 pages