Moby Dick

An introductory critical guide with five specialised essays analysing Melville's classic Moby-Dick.

Books about Moby-Dick

An illustrated adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel is accompanied by information about whales and the whaling village of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

In The Errant Art of "Moby-Dick," one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick—a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication—William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably

Eleven critical essays examine the symbolism, philosophy, and themes in Moby-Dick.

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A literary classic that wasn't recognized for its merits until decades after its publication, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick tells the tale of a whaling ship and its crew, who are carried progressively further out to sea by the fiery Captain Ahab. Obsessed with killing the massive whale, which had previously bitten

Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick.* Geraldine McCaughrean

The story of Captain Ahab's obssession with the great white whale that crippled him is presented in a specially designed edition

Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Herman Melville's novel, "Moby Dick," which was published in the 1850s and based on the author's own experience at sea.