Herman Melville Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, A 1851 Novel By American Writer Herman

Name: Herman Melville Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, A 1851 Novel By American Writer Herman
Brand: Herman Melville
SKU: P-d92e4e07-2331-4391-9603-dc329641aee9
Price: 29.2 GBP
Availability: InStock

Herman Melville Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, A 1851 Novel By American Writer Herman thumbnail

Price Alert

★ 4.9

£29.20

Best price from debenhams.com

Price Alert

★ 4.9

£29.20

Best price from debenhams.com

Price Alert

★ 4.9

£29.20

Best price from debenhams.com

Price Alert

★ 4.9

£29.20

Best price from debenhams.com

debenhams.com

£29.20

£2.99

Price details

Lowest price for a new Herman Melville Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, A 1851 Novel By American Writer Herman is £29.20. This is currently the cheapest offer among 1 stores.

Product Information

MobyDick or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmaels narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ships previous voyage bit off Ahabs leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, MobyDick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the authors death in 1891. Its reputation as a "Great American Novel" was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its authors birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself,[and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written".Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literatures most famous. Melville began writing MobyDick in February 1850, and finished 18 months later, a year longer than he had anticipated. Melville drew on his experience as a common sailor from 1841 to 1844, including several years on whalers, and on wide reading in whaling literature. The white whale is modeled on the notoriously hardtocatch albino whale Mocha Dick, and the books ending is based on the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820. His literary influences include Shakespeare and the Bible. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life... | Herman Melville Moby Dick; Or, The Whale: A 1851 novel by American writer Herman

Product Specifications

GeslachtUnisex

Sizehttps://www.debenhams.com/product/herman-melville-moby-dick-or-the-whale-a-1851-novel-by-american-writer-herman_p-d92e4e07-2331-4391-9603-dc329641aee9?colour=Multi&size=One%20Size