(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Herman Melville
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
Call me Ishmael. With these three words, Herman Melville begins the most ambitious American novel of the nineteenth century. Aboard the whaling ship Pequod, the monomaniacal Captain Ahab drives his crew across the world's oceans in obsessive pursuit of the great white whale that took his leg. What begins as a sea adventure becomes, in Melville's hands, a meditation on obsession, fate, the natural world, and the abyss that lies beneath the surface of every human enterprise.
Published in 1851 and largely ignored in its time, Moby-Dick is now recognised as a cornerstone of world literature — rich with symbolism and philosophical inquiry, as the Penguin Select Classics edition notes, challenging readers to ponder humanity's place in the natural world. The friendship between Ishmael and the harpooner Queequeg, the terrifying grandeur of the whale, Ahab's magnificent ruin: these are images that do not leave the mind.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Melville's original, unabridged text — a distinguished addition to any serious library.
