Moby-Dick, or, The whale

Author(s)

• Melville, Herman
• Delbanco, Andrew
• Quirk, Tom

Bibliographic Information

Moby-Dick, or, The whale

Herman Melville ; introduction by Andrew Delbanco ; notes and explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1992

Other Title

Moby-Dick

Whale

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [635]-650)

"The deffinitive text"--Cover

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.

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Details

• NCID: BA2143017X
• ISBN:
  • 0140390847
• LCCN: 92019289
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: li, 654 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS2384.M6
  • DC20 : 813/.3
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646