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Download or read book Moby Dick 100 Copy Collector s Edition written by Herman Melville and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. Moby Dick's reputation grew during the 20th century. D. H. Lawrence called it "the greatest book of the sea ever written."
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Download or read book Moby Dick Or The Whale written by Herman Melville and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-08-16 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library. This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased.
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