(04/14/2008) Moby Dick by Herman Melville. New York. 1930. Random House. Illustrated By Rockwell Kent. keywords: Literature America. 827 pages. Cover illustration by Rockwell Kent.
Simply one of the greatest books ever written. The first trade edition of Moby Dick Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, issued after the Lakeside Press 1930 Limited Subscriber's Edition, which consisted of 1,000 three-volume quarto sets that were housed in aluminum slipcases. This edition is set in Monotype Fournier and contains reproductions of all of Kent's original illustrations for the Lakeside Press Limited Edition.
FROM THE PUBLISHER -
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic-a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D. H. Lawrence wrote, Moby Dick 'commands a stillness in the soul, an awe. [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.'
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