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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Contributors:

By (Author) Herman Melville
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
Introduction by Rockwell Kent

ISBN:

9780679783275

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Imprint:

Modern Library Inc

Publication Date:

15th December 2000

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

813.3

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

896

Dimensions:

Width 132mm, Height 201mm, Spine 41mm

Weight:

607g

Description

Melville's great American novel, with a new

Reviews

" Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab."
--F. O. Matthiessen
"Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab."
--F. O. Matthiessen

Author Bio

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), American Fictions, and Seduction and Betrayal Women and Literature.

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