Moby Dick -- Herman Melville

<b>Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure--a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. </b> <p/>At the heart of <i>Moby-Dick</i> is the powerful, unknowable sea--and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab's whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God's most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality. <p/>A novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men, <i>Moby-Dick</i> is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the <i>Atlantic Monthly </i>called "the greatest of American novels."<br> <p/><b>With an Introduction by Elizabeth Renker <br>and an Afterword by Christopher Buckley</b><br><br><b>Author:</b> Herman Melville<br><b>Publisher:</b> Signet Book<br><b>Published:</b> 07/02/2013<br><b>Pages:</b> 624<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.66lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.75h x 4.20w x 1.05d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780451532282<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 11/20/2015 pg. 118<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Herman Melville</b>'s (1819-91) father's bankruptcy and death in 1832 deprived him of higher-educational oppotunities and alienated him forever from a conventional view of life. He taught school, sail