Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, Ivan Aivazovsky and Joseph Vernet. A schoolmaster ships out of Nantucket on a whaler whose captain is hunting one particular white whale, and the voyage turns into an account of everything: how a whale is cut up, what the ropes are called, what the colour white means, and what a man owes the thing that maimed him. Melville had served on a whaler himself and jumped ship in the Marquesas. It sold badly, went out of print, and was rediscovered seventy years later. Fifty-eight plates of ships, ice, harbours and the men who work them, from Turner and Eastman Johnson, keep the sea before the eye throughout.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, Ivan Aivazovsky and Joseph Vernet. A schoolmaster ships out of Nantucket on a whaler whose captain is hunting one particular white whale, and the voyage turns into an account of everything: how a whale is cut up, what the ropes...
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Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist and short story writer. He drew on his years at sea for novels including Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Redburn (1849), and later published the story collection The Piazza Tales (1856). From 1866 to 1885 he worked as a customs inspector in New York City.
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist and short story writer. He drew on his years at sea for novels including Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Redburn (1849), and later published the story collection The Piazza Tales (1856). From 1866 to 1885 he worked as a customs inspector in New ...
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