Book Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman MelvilleAndrew DelbancoTom Quirk
Book Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman MelvilleAndrew DelbancoTom Quirk Published February 21st 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published October 18th 1851) with ISBN 9.78014E+12 Description in English : "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unk...