Moby-Dick, or, The whale
By: by Herman Melville ; with an introduction by Elizabeth Renker.
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9780451526991
Subjects: Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Whaling ships -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Whaling -- Fiction; Whales -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: The whale
Description: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, in which Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the albino sperm whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-555).
"Revised and updated bibliography."