Moby-Dick
06 October 2016
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
Complete and unabridged.
Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts...
Details
06 October 2016
768 pages
9781509826643
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
Moby-Dick is, for me, the supreme American novel, the source and the inspiration of everything that follows in the American literary canonRobert McCrum, ‘The 100 best novels’, Guardian
Melville has himself become part of the literary canon. A fixture.Ian McGuire, Independent
Much of the impact of Melville’s book on any fierce new convert is implicit in that sense of time travel. Sometimes I read it and I feel like I’m going backward, fast. It reads like something that was written before books were invented, yet it is utterly modernPhilip Hoare, The New Yorker