Moby Dick [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics]
by Shirley Bogart, Herman Melville
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Retells the story of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him.Tags
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Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship to seek adventure. With his unexpected friend Queequeg, a cannibal harpooner, he joins the Pequod, captained by the mysterious Ahab. But Ahab is only interested in seeking revenge upon the great white whale, Moby Dick, who took off Ahab's leg on an earlier trip. It's a hair raising whale hunt where Ishmael's search for adventure turns into a desperate wish to survive.
Moby Dick is the story of a whaling captain wanting revenge on a whale named Moby Dick because that whale ate his foot. As adventure goes the experience many troubles at sea. But at they end every thing goes to sadness.
I like this book very much it has a lot of rising and falling action in it. This book is best for every one to read. Its not to long and not to short. this book was fun to read. I like this book very much.
I like this book very much it has a lot of rising and falling action in it. This book is best for every one to read. Its not to long and not to short. this book was fun to read. I like this book very much.
A fantastic classic that will make you love every second of it. Hard to put down this classic. Great details and it will leave you wanting more.
what a strange book. maybe I would have enjoyed it more had I read it earlier in life. Oh well, it was interesting none the less.
this is a great classic but it is freightning.
Great book !
Entertaining too , read it in one day !
Entertaining too , read it in one day !
This book is about a teacher named Ishmael who joins a whaling ship to find adventure. Who unexpectedly finds his friend who is a cannibal harpooner, So they go on a adventure to seek when there mysterious captain goes some other direction
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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without show more enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Moby Dick [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics]
- Alternate titles
- Moby-Dick; The Whale; The White Whale
- Original publication date
- 1851
- People/Characters
- Ishmael; Elijah; Captain Ahab; Captain Boomer; Moby Dick; Starbuck (show all 12); Stubb; Flask; Queequeg; Tashtego; Daggoo; Fedallah
- Disambiguation notice
- The Great Illustrated Classics are abridged versions for young readers. Please do not combine with the major work. See http://en.w... (show all)ikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Il.... Please do not confuse them with the Illustrated Classics graphic novel adaptations, which are quite different. Thank you.
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