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Moby Dick by Herman Melville & Jan Needle & Patrick Benson (ill.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics
Haunted by prophesies of his own death, Captain Ahab hunts the vast waters of the Pacific in search of the great white whale that has become his obsession. This towering novel has been sympathetically edited to a tenth of its original length, focussing on the exciting chase at the core of the book, as a ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerl ...Show more
Moby-Dick Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics
In part, "Moby-Dick" is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's ...Show more
Moby Dick (Walker Illustrated Classics) by Herman Melville
$31.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics
<p>"Walker Illustrated Classics" is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read. The classics h ...Show more
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'. In "The Confidence-Man", Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who ...Show more
The Happy Failure by Herman Melville
$15.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Short Story Collections
"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville, ...Show more
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