Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wordsworth Hardback)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wordsworth Hardback)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 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. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the

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