{"product_id":"moby-dick-isbn-9780451532282","title":"Moby- Dick","description":"\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure—a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab’s whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God’s most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly \u003c\/i\u003ecalled “the greatest of American novels.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Elizabeth Renker \u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Christopher Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e's (1819-91) father's bankruptcy and death in 1832 deprived him of higher-educational oppotunities and alienated him forever from a conventional view of life. He taught school, sailed to Liverpool and back, then shipped before the mast on a Pacific whaling voyage. He deserted at the Marquesas Islands, living for a month among the cannibal Typee natives. An Australian whaleship then took him to Tahiti, where he was jailed for mutiny, but he escaped and spent some months as a beachcomber. A third whaleship took him to Hawaii, where he lived for some months before sailing home with the crew of the frigate \u003ci\u003eUnited States\u003c\/i\u003e. From these adventures came his popular and increasingly imaginative travel romances: \u003ci\u003eTypee \u003c\/i\u003e(1846), \u003ci\u003eOmoo \u003c\/i\u003e(1847), the allegorical\u003ci\u003e Mardi \u003c\/i\u003e(1849),\u003ci\u003e Redburn\u003c\/i\u003e (1849), \u003ci\u003eWhite-Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e (1850), and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick \u003c\/i\u003e(1851). Melville married in 1847. His later works of fiction were not sea romances and sold poorly. He gave up professional writing and for twenty years served as a customs inspector in New York, where he died. \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e, written in his last years, was published for the first time in 1924, on the crest of a Melville revival that began about 1920 and continues to the present day—a revival that has established him among the greatest American writers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Renker \u003c\/b\u003eteaches English at Ohio State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eStrike through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Buckley \u003c\/b\u003eis a widely published essayist and the author of fifteen books, including \u003ci\u003eThank Your for Smoking \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLosing Mum and Pup\u003c\/i\u003e. At eighteen, he worked his way around the world as a deckboy aboard a Norwegian merchant ship. His first book was \u003ci\u003eSteaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has crossed the Atlantic twice aboard a sailboat and the Pacific once.","brand":"Signet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301132423397,"sku":"NP9780451532282","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451532282.jpg?v=1767732852","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/moby-dick-isbn-9780451532282","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}