Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
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'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of 'some unknown but still reasoning thing'. Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards 'the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale'.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780553213119
EAN:
9780553213119
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Pages:
670
Authors:
Herman Melville
Publisher:
Bantam Classics
Worth the effort. Nothing like it. You cannot match the language or the vision in any other story. Do not quit.
Purchase this for my grandson. He said he likes this book. Fast delivery.
Most people know that Moby Dick is about Captain Ahab’s obsession concerning the white whale that took his leg on an earlier voyage. That said, the voyage of the Pequod is the subject of less than half this book. The whale, himself, refrains from swimming onstage until the final three chapters.Much of the rest is Ishmael (the narrator) philosophizing about Melville’s interests: the classics, zoology, scripture, the seafaring life, and how a ship on a worldwide voyage becomes, to those who crew it, a world unto itself. Be aware that Melville delighted in sending his readers reaching for their dictionaries and, occasionally, inventing words out of thin air.There are several Kindle editions of this public-domain work. Be sure to sample before you buy, and make certain the formatting agrees with you. I docked a star on this one because the illustrations and Melville’s footnotes could have been rendered better.
The story seemed fine, it is a very long-winded tale about whaling, and whaling byproducts.
I enjoyed this book. It is great depiction of whaling in the 1850's. Melville is writing from experience. I feel this is tow books in one. The first is documentation and the second is an emotional rollercoaster. The finale is just epic. I did loose track of the hunt for Moby Dick during Melville's talking about the features of whales, the process of getting oil, running the ship, and figuring out where you are out in the sea.
