{"product_id":"moby-dick-hardback-1","title":"Moby Dick (Hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the greatest novel ever written by an American.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61673154347338,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1037\/5256\/5066\/files\/81_3Wl6KVNL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776786842","url":"https:\/\/mavisbookshop.com\/products\/moby-dick-hardback-1","provider":"Mavis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}