{"product_id":"moby-dick-wordsworth-classics-9781853260087-new","title":"Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmong the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ein the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Editions","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52846025474208,"sku":"9781853260087-new","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0463\/0115\/1392\/files\/41WMBltiqdL.jpg?v=1758736543","url":"https:\/\/shop.mtwyouth.org\/products\/moby-dick-wordsworth-classics-9781853260087-new","provider":"More Than Words ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}