{"product_id":"moby-dick-collectors-editions-herman-melville-9781840228304","title":"Moby Dick (Collector's Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoby 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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Editions Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49560662278432,"sku":"9781840228304","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781840228304_1893266.jpg?v=1793856773","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/moby-dick-collectors-editions-herman-melville-9781840228304","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}