{"product_id":"moby-dick-herman-melville-1","title":"Moby Dick, Herman Melville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDigressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education:in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his ‘mighty theme’ – not only the whale but all things sublime – Melville breathes in the world’s great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63965187965305,"sku":null,"price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/0124\/1465\/files\/moby_0ae1419c-2582-4a10-b0c3-21345a1e77ee.jpg?v=1783949076","url":"https:\/\/arcadebookshop.com\/products\/moby-dick-herman-melville-1","provider":"Arcade Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}