{"product_id":"9781853260087","title":"Moby Dick","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Herman Melville\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 May 1992 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Classics' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 544 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 29mm | 344g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the crew is Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education:in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his ‘mighty theme’ – not only the whale but all things sublime – Melville breathes in the world’s great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64838393364829,"sku":"9781853260087","price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781853260087.jpg?v=1780055399","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781853260087","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}