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Moby Dick
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, Author.
- Series:
- Writings of Herman Melville ; vol. 6.
- The writings of Herman Melville ; vol. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ship captains--Fiction.
- Ship captains.
- Whaling--Fiction.
- Whaling.
- Whales--Fiction.
- Whales.
- Genre:
- Sea stories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- The Northwestern-Newberry edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Evanston] : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epic whaling adventure follows the crew of the Pequod, as its captain, Ahab, descends deeper and deeper into madness on his quest to find and kill the white whale that maimed him. Beyond the surface - of ship life, whaling and the hunt for the elusive Moby Dick - are allegorical references to life, and even the universe, in Herman Melville's classic masterpiece.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 8, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-184773-9
- 0-585-38294-8
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