"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial …
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"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale." Key letters from Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne are printed at the end of this volume. - Back cover.
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Bai jing
808 pages
Chinese language
Published Jan. 6, 1982 by Shanghai yi wen chu ban she, Xin hua shu dian Shanghai fa xing suo fa xing.
Moby Dick
English language
Published Aug. 6, 1965 by Folkways Records & Service.
Moby Dick
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1966 by Washington Square Press.
Moby Dick
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2013 by GITenberg.
Moby Dick, of De witte walvisch
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Dutch language
Published Jan. 6, 1929 by Querido.
Moby Dick (with an introduction by Edward Said)
Published Jan. 6, 2010 by Library of America Paperback Classics.
Bai jing ji
Chinese language
Published by Jin ri shi jie.
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