{"product_id":"moby-dick-2","title":"Herman Melville: Moby Dick [2022] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e is the greatest novel ever written by an American.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville, Herman","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":49674261299539,"sku":"XG81840228304","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47870846665043,"sku":"XV81840228304","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44503988044066,"sku":"9781840228304","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/melville-herman-herman-melville-moby-dick-2022-hardback-59705687671123.jpg?v=1729836318","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/moby-dick-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}