{"product_id":"moby-dick-9780451532282","title":"Moby Dick by Melville, Herman","description":"\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure--a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the heart of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is the powerful, unknowable sea--and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab's whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God's most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly \u003c\/i\u003ecalled \"the greatest of American novels.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Elizabeth Renker \u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Christopher Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Mass Market Paperbound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.75h x 4.20w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451532282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/20\/2015 pg. 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e's (1819-91) father's bankruptcy and death in 1832 deprived him of higher-educational oppotunities and alienated him forever from a conventional view of life. He taught school, sailed to Liverpool and back, then shipped before the mast on a Pacific whaling voyage. He deserted at the Marquesas Islands, living for a month among the cannibal Typee natives. An Australian whaleship then took him to Tahiti, where he was jailed for mutiny, but he escaped and spent some months as a beachcomber. A third whaleship took him to Hawaii, where he lived for some months before sailing home with the crew of the frigate \u003ci\u003eUnited States\u003c\/i\u003e. From these adventures came his popular and increasingly imaginative travel romances: \u003ci\u003eTypee \u003c\/i\u003e(1846), \u003ci\u003eOmoo \u003c\/i\u003e(1847), the allegorical\u003ci\u003e Mardi \u003c\/i\u003e(1849), \u003ci\u003e Redburn\u003c\/i\u003e (1849), \u003ci\u003eWhite-Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e (1850), and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick \u003c\/i\u003e(1851). Melville married in 1847. His later works of fiction were not sea romances and sold poorly. He gave up professional writing and for twenty years served as a customs inspector in New York, where he died. \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e, written in his last years, was published for the first time in 1924, on the crest of a Melville revival that began about 1920 and continues to the present day--a revival that has established him among the greatest American writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Renker \u003c\/b\u003eteaches English at Ohio State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eStrike through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Buckley \u003c\/b\u003eis a widely published essayist and the author of fifteen books, including \u003ci\u003eThank Your for Smoking \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLosing Mum and Pup\u003c\/i\u003e. At eighteen, he worked his way around the world as a deckboy aboard a Norwegian merchant ship. His first book was \u003ci\u003eSteaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has crossed the Atlantic twice aboard a sailboat and the Pacific once.\n\u003c!-- bookmarks-official-preview:9780451532282 --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bookmarks-official-preview\" style=\"max-width:100%;margin:1.5em 0 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 2px;letter-spacing:0.08em;font-size:12px;color:#c45c3a;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOOK INSIDE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 12px;font-size:1.15em;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 12px;\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"bookmarks-li-open\" href=\"#bookmarks-look-inside\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:6px 12px;border:1px solid #c45c3a;color:#c45c3a;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eLarger view\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;max-width:100%;overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;scroll-snap-type:x mandatory;display:flex;flex-wrap:nowrap;gap:0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"flex:0 0 100%;width:100%;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;scroll-snap-align:start;box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/insight.penguinrandomhouse.com\/fullpage.do?pContentType=JPG\u0026amp;pName=fullpage\u0026amp;pISBN=9780451532282\u0026amp;pPageID=1\" alt=\"Official sample page 1 of 18. 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