Moby-Dick -- Herman Melville, Mass Market Paperbound

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel's narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 02/01/1981
Pages: 670
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 6.97h x 4.26w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780553213119
Age Range: 3-5

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.3
Point Value: 42
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 711 / Moby-Dick, Or, the Whale (English)


Review Citation(s):
Newsweek 12/03/2007 pg. 20
Christian Century 10/21/2008 pg. 31
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 97
Entertainment Weekly 10/25/2013 pg. 103

About the Author
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), American Fictions, and Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature.