'The ultimate fish story'Bob DylanWhen Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day,he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain,Ahab,is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale,Moby Dick,and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099511182Number of pages: 672Weight: 460 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 33 mm
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A masterpieceA great book...a deep great artistA wonderful delightMoby Dick is my favourite novel,bar none. It works on so many levels. It taught me that you can have a top layer of narrative - like the seafaring story - and then below that all those wonderful,rich,symbolic things going onTo convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public,is impossible in the scope of a review. High philosophy,liberal feeling,abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased,soaring speculation,a style as many-coloured as the theme,yet always good,and often admirable; fertile fancy,ingenious construction,playful learning,and an unusual power of enchaining the interest,and rising to the verge of the sublime,without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville,and exemplified in these volumes
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