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100 1 $aMelville, Herman $q(Herman Melville).
245 10 $aMoby-Dick$h[electronic resource].
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500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aWritten by one of America's greatest authors, Moby-Dick is a work of tremendous power and depth--one of world literature's great poetic epics. In the novel, published in 1851 after sixteen months of writing, Herman Melville recounts the Promethean quest of Captain Ahab, who, having lost a leg in a earlier battle with White Whale, is determined to catch the beast and destroy it. By the time readers meet Ahab, he is a vengeful, crazed, and terror-provoking figure, for Moby-Dick has come to represent for him all the evil in the world. The relentless voyage of Ahab and his crew, a finely etched group of weird and wonderful characters who seem both flesh-and-blood individuals and symbolic of the varying qualities of men, becomes a masterful drama of life at sea. The drama is made more fascinating by Melville's eloquent style--a combination of the journalistic, colloquial, and poetic--and the themes and subjects he pursues--whales and whaling; man's need for love and comradeship; and the fury of Ahab for the whale. Through realistic storytelling, symbolic allegory, and allusive and figurative language, Melville achieves in Moby-Dick a special intensity that readers will marvel at, and not soon forget.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bChatham :$cFictionwise, Inc.,$d2004.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2407 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 769 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2407 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 769 KB).
653 #0 $aClassic Literature
653 #0 $aFiction
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
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