Moby Dick: Or the Whale
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic take in art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each tale. Appropriate “reader friendly” type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are perfect and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of Moby-Dick includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.
When a wandering sailor looking to be hired onto a whaling ship finds himself on the Pequod, small does he know the dire fate that awaits him and his crewmates. For the ship’s captain, Ahab, is slowly going insane. Having lost a leg in an ill-fated harpoon attack against a fearsome white whale many years before, Ahab vows his revenge against Moby Dick–a vow that has become Ahab’s deadly obsession.
After many months at sea, Moby Dick is spotted, and Ahab engages the crew in relentless pursuit. Ahab will stop at nothing to kill the beast…even if it means his own death–and the death of all his crew.
Can Ahab be stopped before it is too late? Or will the Pequod–and all its crew–perish in the silent depths of the sea…?
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I HATE this book. Why? It’s BORING! I typically like classics, British lit and poetry, but what’s the point in defending my tastes? Jane Eyre is a long novel, and that’s one of favorites. Wuthering Heights? It took me 100 pages before I got into it, and I finished up adoring that novel as well. Moby Dick? I was FORCED to read this while finishing college, and the Professor (if that’s what he should be called) went on and on about the symbolism, the allusions, etc…it is the WORST BOOK I have ever read. Honestly, Over 400 pages devoted to killing a whale because it ate your hand? Come on. When Melville wrote this wannabe classical crap, it was shunned by the readers of his day and was poorly reviewed. THEY didn’t even like it! Also, I’ve read fleeting tales by him too…and they all suck! He is probably one of the worst “classical” writers ever! Even Charles Dickens, who churned out some beefy, long novels because he was paid by the page, wrote in a more appealing manner than Melville! Man, thinking of this book makes me cringe. Yechh.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I didn’t get 20 pages into this book before I said ENOUGH ALREADY GET TO THE PART WITH THE WHALES. Sheesh. Maybe the ending is excellent. Maybe Ishmael and the whale become lifelong friends and live happily ever after.
I do not know because Mr. Melville wont stop rambling on and get to the POINT.
There is a nice picture of a whale on the take in of my copy anyway so that excise this book as TWO STARS. The rest is mostly junk. Back to the drawing board!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
His writing style and sentence structure are poor. It is hard to read. like work. Doubt he could get published today.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
IT IS GOOD BUT DONT WASTE YOUR TIME READING IT LIKE I DID. IT IS SORT OF A WASTE OF TIME. YOU COULD BE WATCHING TV INSTEAD. THINK ABOUT WHICH IS MORE FUN. EXACTLY!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
this book is dull. that is all. I read this book over the course of 2 days and wrote a 50 page journal on it in the same time. I hope to never read it again. No narrative drive, no interest. Symbolizism yes, but that doesn’t make a book. No marvel Melville flopped as a writter.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5