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1) Moby-Dick, or, The whale

Author

Melville, Herman

Series

100 Greatest Books Ever Written
Penguin classics deluxe edition

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.

2) Moby Dick

Author

Melville, Herman

Series

The World's best reading

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook

Description

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One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man's fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a monomaniacal quest to capture the cunning white whale that robbed him of his leg: Moby-Dick. Capturing life

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3) The Great Eastern: a novel

Author

Rodman, Howard

Pub. Date

[2019]

Language

English

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"A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel...