{"product_id":"moby-dick-by-herman-melville","title":"Moby-Dick by Herman Melville","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville's masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history--a deluxe edition featuring a Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick and cover art by Tony Millionaire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition features the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text, approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. 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The complete set forms a rainbow spectrum prettier than anything else on your bookshelf.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Rex Bonomelli, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Drool-inducing.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Classic reads in stunning covers--your book club will be dying.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eRedbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eM oby-Dick.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLiterary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/b\u003e, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTony Millionaire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip Maakies and the Sock Monkey series of comic and picture books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenguin Group\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: \u003cspan\u003eOctober 01, 2009\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9780143105954\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.73\" H x 8.58\" L x 5.42\" W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e672\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54283684970790,"sku":"upg1793689854866","price":16.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/4445\/1622\/files\/moby-dick-by-herman-melville_1.jpg?v=1793689869","url":"https:\/\/sunshieldwear.shop\/products\/moby-dick-by-herman-melville","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}