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Viking Adult
November 2011
On Sale: October 20, 2011
144 pages
ISBN: 0670022993
EAN: 9780670022991
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Fiction Classics | Fiction Adventure
The New York Times bestselling author of seagoing epics now
celebrates an American classic. Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American
Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject matter create an
aura of difficulty that too often keeps readers at bay.
Fortunately, one unabashed fan wants passionately to give
Melville's masterpiece the broad contemporary audience it
deserves. In his National Book Award- winning bestseller, In
the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick captivatingly
unpacked the story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex, the
real-life incident that inspired Melville to write Moby-
Dick. Now, he sets his sights on the fiction itself,
offering a cabin master's tour of a spellbinding novel rich
with adventure and history. Philbrick skillfully navigates Melville's world and
illuminates the book's humor and unforgettable
characters-finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to
our own time and, indeed, to all times. A perfect match
between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? gives us a
renewed appreciation of both Melville and the proud seaman's
town of Nantucket that Philbrick himself calls home. Like
Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, this
remarkable little book will start conversations, inspire
arguments, and, best of all, bring a new wave of readers to
a classic tale waiting to be discovered anew.
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