Moby-Dick : Vintage Classics

Moby-Dick : Vintage Classics
ISBN: 9780099511182
Publication Date: 1 September 2007

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.

About the Author

American author, best- known for his novels of the sea and his masterpiece MOBY- DICK, a whaling adventure dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. "I have written a wicked book and feel as spotless as the lamb," Melville wrote to Hawthorne. The work was only recognized as a masterpiece 30 years after Melville's death. The fictionalized travel narrative of TYPEE was Melville's most popular book during his lifetime.