Moby-Dick

By Herman Melville

"It's true. It's all true for Moby-Dick. He's a killer, he's a fury, he's an angel of hell. Why if the white whale could talk he'd talk like Ahab."

Nantucket. 1851. Center of a whaling industry that transformed blubber into the oils and candles that lit the world. It's there that a schoolmaster called Ishmael arrives to ship on a whale-boat. He enrolls under Ahab, Captain of the Pequod - a man bent on destroying the white whale that lost him his leg. Certain the destruction of his nemesis will slake his thirst; Ahab's single-minded pursuit of Moby-Dick consumes Ishmael, the crew and the Pequod itself.

The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville's masterpiece - romantic, ambiguous, characterful and rich with allegory - is captured in this wonderful stage adaptation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849435103
• ISBN13: 9781849435109
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.1"