Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Moby-Dick, or, The whale / Moby-Dick Whale Herman Melville ; introduction by Andrew Delbanco ; notes and explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. - New York : Penguin Books, 1992 - li, 654 pages ; 20 cm. - Penguin classics .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxix]-xxx).

Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.

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Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) --Fiction.


Novela estadounidense
Novela juvenil estadounidense
Ballenas --Novela
Whaling ships--Fiction.
Ship captains--Fiction.
Mentally ill--Fiction.
Shipwrecks--Fiction.
Whaling--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.
Whales--Fiction.


Psychological fiction.
Sea stories.
Adventure stories.
Fiction.

PS 2384 / M531m 1992

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