- Mass Market Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (Mar 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671028359
- ISBN-13: 978-0671028350
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 11.8 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #965,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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D.H. Lawrence Moby-Dick commands a stillness in the soul, an awe...[it is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.
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Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told.
Moby-Dick, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature.
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Nice No Frills Edition, Nov 12 2010
By Wood Wren "Wren" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moby-Dick (Mass Market Paperback)
This in no way is a literary review, although I will say that this is a very finely written novel and really should be read by everyone...if of course reading is your thing...it is mine and I love this work...but hey, that is just me.No, this is a quick review on this particular edition of this book. It is good, cheap and of surprisingly good quality. The font is quite readable and paper is pleasing.
This makes a great give and is a great way to add this work to our book shelf at very little cost...of course unless you want to by a nice used copy here on Amazon of which the choices (editions) are almost with out limit.
I purchased three copies of this particular edition as quick graduation gifts...sort of stocking stuffers, if you will and they were indeed appreciated by the kids I gave them to.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
moby dick, Mar 26 2010
By Batty Reader "batty reader" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Moby-Dick (Mass Market Paperback)
Tthe book came as promised, and in the advertised condition, but it is NOT part of the Enriched Classic Series.It's an Airmont Classic, which only includes an intro by a PhD. It's a wicked old version, which is actually
kind of fun 1964--- to read an american classic with old and yellowed pages. I like that part.
It is complete and unabridged, but I thought I was getting a lot more "Enrichment"
when I ordered.
Sadly, it's just a copy of Moby Dick, a bit weathered... lacking the scholarly info
i thought I had ordered.
:(
5.0 out of 5 stars
all-time great narrator, Oct 2 2009
By candacekay - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moby-Dick (Mass Market Paperback)
Huck Finn, Holden Caulfield, Scout Finch - they're all classic American narrators. But for my money, the king of them all is Melville's Ishmael. Listening to him tell this story is like listening to a rakish old grandpa tell his half-remembered, half-made-up stories of youthful adventures, complete with rambling, yet interesting, digressions. Sometimes the details can be confusing to modern minds, but once you've fallen under Ishmael's spell, it doesn't seem to matter much; the point is listening to that voice and hearing the way he says things. Sure, at some points you might feel like saying, "Get on with the story, Grandpa!" But at the end of the story you'll be saying, "Tell me another one!" Ishmael's what I'd call a considerate narrator; for all his wandering asides about whales and what not, he always makes sure you know where you are in the narrative. After all, he only digresses during those long stretches of time when the Pequod is sailing along and not much is happening. The minute something happens, he stops rambling immediately, and then you're right there in the boat, catching a whale. I love Ishmael! To spend time in his company is well worth any effort the reading may require.
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