Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

Moby-Dick, or, The white whale / Herman Melville. - 1st ed - [London] : Everyman's Library, [1991] - xxix, 573 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's Library ; 40 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi).

A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.

1857150406 (acidfree paper)

95100842


Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Whaling ships--Fiction.
Ship captains--Fiction.
Mentally ill--Fiction.
Whaling--Fiction.
Whales--Fiction.


Psychological fiction.
Adventure stories.
Sea stories.

PS2384 / .M6 1991c

813.3