Moby Dick

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Publication

2014 - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

English

Word Count

213,357 words, Calculated

Page Count

378 pages

Identifiers

ISBN-139781503280786
ISBN-101503280780
Better World Books9781503280786
Open LibraryOL29711566M

Description

"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.