Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)
Brand: Wordsworth Editions
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure


Wordsworth Editions

Dimensions: 5 x 1.5 x 7.7 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1853260087
ISBN-10: 1853260088
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Print length: 544 pages
Publication date: December 3, 1999
Lexile measure: 730L
Language: English
subtitle: Paperback – December 3, 1999
author: Herman Melville
review: Editorial Reviews Review "Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab." --F. O. Matthiessen From the Trade Paperback edition. From the Back Cover A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, let by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick in this children's version of Melville's Moby Dick. About the Author The writing career of Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) peaked early, with his early novels, such as Typee becoming best sellers. By the mid-1850s his poularity declined sharply, and by the time he died he had been largely forgotten. Yet in time his novel Moby Dick came to be regarded as one of the finest works of American, and indeed world, literature, as was Billy Budd, which was not published until long after his death, in 1924. Read more