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Billy Budd Sailor by HERMAN MELVILLE
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Billy Budd, Sailor is a maritime classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. Written some forty years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a young, innocent sailor's charm and good nature put ...Show more
Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Robert (EDT) Herman; Milder Melville
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cu ...Show more
Moby Dick by Melville Herman
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. W ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Category: No Category | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young sailor Ishmael befriends a tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg, and finds himself aboard the Pequod, which is captained by the obsessive Captain Ahab. Not long after the voyage has begun, Ahab te ...Show more
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With 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'. Moby Dickis 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 diabo ...Show more
Moby Dick (Chartwell Classics) by Herman Melville
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Complete and unabridged, Moby Dick is Herman Melville's classic tale of nature versus man. Journey to the heart of the sea with this larger-than-life classic. Regarded as the Great American Novel, Moby Dick is the ultimate tale of seeking vengeance. Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epic whaling ...Show more
Moby Dick - The Illustrated Novel by Herman Melville; Anton Lomaev
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Perhaps the greatest of all American novels, Moby Dick is newly presented with sixty inspiring full-page illustrations that bring fresh life and emotional depth to this classic of literature.Every reader knows the obsessive story of Captain Ahab and the famous white whale. Moby Dick is the great America ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell Kent 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 Captai ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Herman Melville
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In part, "Moby-Dick" is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's ...Show more
The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
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This volume, first published in 1856, collects three of Melville's most important pieces of prose fiction. In 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young clerk called Bartleby, whose sudden and mysterious refusal to work plunges the firm into disarray. 'Benito Cereno' is a h ...Show more
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