Synopsis:

The Macmillan Collector’s Library is a collection designed for book lovers, featuring beautifully bound, pocket-sized gift editions of beloved classics. Each book is bound in genuine cloth, printed on high-quality paper, and adorned with ribbon markers and gilt edges, making them treasures to cherish.

Moby-Dick is brimming with ideas and imagery, its extraordinary intensity maintained through wry irony and moments of exquisite beauty. This novel stands as both a grand American epic and a deeply imaginative literary creation.

This edition includes an afterword by Nigel Cliff.

Aboard the whaling ship Pequod, a crew of wise men and fools, outcasts and seeming phantoms, is driven through perilous seas by the obsessed Captain Ahab, who is determined to hunt down the legendary White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the small world of the whaling ship into a crucible where mankind’s fears, faith, and frailties are tested against a relentless fate.