Among 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: in 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.
| ISBN: | 9781906230722 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2013 |
| Author: | Herman Melville |
| Illustrator: | Katy Elphinstone |
| Publisher: | Real Reads |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 64 pages |