# Moby-Dick

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- Book: [Moby-Dick](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/moby-dick) ([Moby-Dick.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/moby-dick.md))
- Authors: [Herman Melville](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-895-8
- Pages: 720
- Published: 2012-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.