Moby-Dick, or The Whale: 150th Anniversary Edition (Melville)

ISBN: 0810119110

Author: Melville, Herman

Condition: New

This edition of Moby-Dick, released in honor of the book's sesquicentennial, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers sets out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; Queequeg, a South Seas harpooner; Starbuck, the sober and serious chief mate; and above all Captain Ahab, part-Faust and part-Job, obsessed with the destruction of his foe.This text of Moby-Dick is an Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America).