Moby Dick: Illustrated Classics (Abridged Version)

Name: Moby Dick: Illustrated Classics (Abridged Version)
SKU: 9789390391684
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By Herman Melville

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“It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.”

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author’s lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

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SKU: 9789390391684 Categories: Action & Adventure, Ages 9-12, Children's Books, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction

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About the Author

Herman Melville was an American novelist, poet and a short story writer, best known for his novel, Moby Dick which is considered one of the greatest works of American literature. Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819. Herman’s father had a successful import business which allowed the family to live in a fashionable part of New York City. In 1826, Herman’s father died leaving the family in financial turmoil. Despite him being good in academia, Herman’s family could not afford to send him to college. Instead at the age of eighteen, Herman signed up to work on a merchant ship bound for Liverpool, England. He spent many years at sea, travelling to far-off places like the South-Pacific and the Galapagos islands. This experience would inspire his later writing about the sea and the whaling industry.