Moby Dick (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) Hardcover by Herman Melville

Product Details

• Publisher: Fingerprint (2023-02-15)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 652 pages
• ISBN-13: 9789354407345
• Item Weight: 663.39 grams
• Dimensions: 22.38 x 14.76 x 4.45 cm

Set sail on one of literature’s most formidable voyages with Moby Dick, Herman Melville’s timeless epic of obsession, revenge, and the vast, untamable power of nature. Narrated by Ishmael, a young sailor, the story unfolds aboard the whaling ship Pequod, captained by the monomaniacal Ahab. Driven by a dark and burning desire to seek vengeance on the white whale that maimed him, Ahab steers his crew into dangerous, uncharted waters—physically and psychologically.

More than just a maritime adventure, Moby Dick explores profound themes of fate, madness, divinity, and man's struggle against the unknown. With unforgettable imagery and philosophical depth, Melville’s masterpiece remains endlessly rich and rewarding.

An epic that sails the seas of the mind.

• Dive into one of the greatest novels of American literature.
• Explore themes of obsession, fate, and the unknown.
• Discover vivid seafaring adventures with unforgettable prose.
• Reflect on the human condition through rich allegory and symbolism.

Themes :

• Obsession and vengeance
• Fate vs. free will
• Nature’s power and indifference
• Identity and madness
• Man vs. the unknown
• Leadership and isolation
• Myth and mortality
• Existential inquiry

About the Author

Moby Dick or The Whale (1851), written by Herman Melville, is considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance.Born in New York City in 1819 into the American aristocracy, Herman Melville started to write in the winter of 1844-45, aged twenty-five. He wrote nine novels plus many short stories in eleven years, and initially with considerable commercial success. He wrote Typee (1846), which was a bestseller, as was the sequel Omoo (1847), after which he wrote Mardi (1849). He was known to have read Rabelais and for being deeply inspired by Shakespeare.In his final years he had been working on the manuscript of Billy Budd Sailor, which was left unfinished at his death and published only in 1924.