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Moby-Dick
Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author)

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ISBN: 0553213113     ISBN-13: 9780553213119
Publisher: Bantam Classics
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 1981
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Annotation: No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental "Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, "Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D.H. Lawrence wrote, "Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Sea Stories
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 3-5
Grade Level: PreK-K
Lexile Measure: 1230 HL (High-Low)
Physical Information: 1.13" H x 4.26" W x 6.97" L (0.74 lbs) 670 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Home Schooling
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Newsweek 12/03/2007 pg. 20
Christian Century 10/21/2008 pg. 31
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 97
Entertainment Weekly 10/25/2013 pg. 103
 
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel's narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.

 
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