<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of the most widely-read and respected books in all American literature, "Moby Dick" is the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter. A novel blending high-seas romantic adventure, symbolic allegory, and the conflicting ideals of heroic determination and undying hatred, "Moby Dick" is also revered for its historical accounts of the whaling industry of the 1800s.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow, was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>, <i>Walden</i>, and <i>Leaves of Grass</i>, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the ultimate achievement of that stunning period in American letters.</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab."<BR>--F. O. Matthiessen<BR><BR><BR>"From the Trade Paperback edition."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Elizabeth Hardwick</b> (1916-2007) is the author of many books and essays, including <i>Herman Melville </i>(Penguin Lives), <i>American Fictions, </i> and <i>Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature.</i>
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