Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Penguin English Library Softcover Book

Title: Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Penguin English Library Softcover Book.
Author: Herman Mellville.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: 1978 Reprint.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Year First Published: 1851.
Format: Softcover Book.
Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Harold Beaver.
Penguin published a special print with the history of the author as well as other information about the book.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Printed By: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd.
Page Count: 1011 pages.
Size: Width: 11cm
      Height: 18cm
      Thickness: 4.5cm
Info: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a "Great American Novel" was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous.
Condition: Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages, spine is fairly tight, no markings, no torn pages.
Price: R 195.00 Inc Vat.