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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xix, 668 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A recreation of 19th century antebellum America and of Melville's Moby Dick. Una Spencer returns to her native Kentucky to bear her first child sired by her second husband, middle-aged Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod.
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A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
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