{"product_id":"moby-dick-9781509826643","title":"Moby-Dick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, \u003ci\u003e Moby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. Both his grandfathers were Revolutionary War heroes but his father, a merchant, died bankrupt in 1833. Melville left school and worked at various jobs before shipping on the whaler Achshnet in 1841. The next year he deserted, travelled the South Seas and joined the US Navy. After three years he retired, settled in Massachusetts and started to write. His first two novels, \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e (1846) and\u003ci\u003eOmoo\u003c\/i\u003e (1847), were fictionalized accounts of his travels: they remained his most popular works during his lifetime. In 1847 Melville married and wrote a series of novels he considered potboilers for money. With \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e (1851) he changed course, partly under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne; but the novel's extravagant intensity lost him readers.\u003ci\u003e Pierre\u003c\/i\u003e (1852) fared no better, and after publishing one more novel Melville took a job as a customs inspector in the New York City harbour and turned to writing poetry. He died there in 1891; an unfinished novel, \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1924.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619290681618,"sku":"9781509826643","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c94ba22f-dbd6-4194-b8a4-8fd7fc1c7de8.jpg?v=1773737967","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/moby-dick-9781509826643","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}