The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in
collapsed and snapped as both jaws like an enormous shears sliding further aft bit the
craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in
the whole of literature: the mad raging Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to
kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg and upon which he has sworn vengeance at any
cost. A creation unlike any other this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest
dreams and obsessions of mankind. 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
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