{"title":"Books by Herman Melville","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerman Melville stands among the great voices of nineteenth‑century American literature, celebrated for his profound explorations of obsession, morality, and the human struggle against nature. His writing blends adventure with philosophical depth, drawing readers into vividly realised worlds shaped by the sea, commerce, and the restless pursuit of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known for his masterwork *Moby‑Dick*, Melville's legacy also includes finely crafted tales and reflective prose that continue to challenge and inspire. His influence extends far beyond his own era, inviting modern readers to rediscover the timeless questions and rich symbolism that define his remarkable body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you this author? Drop us a line to update your details \u003cb\u003ehello@bookcurl.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"moby-dick-9781853260087","title":"Moby Dick","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \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.\u003c\/p\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.\u003c\/p\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:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ein 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":"Wordsworth Editions Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47850676814167,"sku":"9781853260087","price":6.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781853260087.jpg?v=1710618429"},{"product_id":"mobydick-9780099511182","title":"MobyDick","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville was born in New York on 1 August 1819. He first went to sea at the age of nineteen on the \u003ci\u003eSt Lawrence\u003c\/i\u003e which sailed from New York to Liverpool. He later worked as a teacher before taking to the seas again in 1841 on the whaleship \u003ci\u003eAchushnet\u003c\/i\u003e. After six months of sailing in the Pacific, Melville abandoned ship and lived among the natives of the Marquesas Islands for several weeks. This experience inspired his first book \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e (1846) which was published to great success. The sequel, \u003ci\u003eOmoo\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1847 and later that year Melville married Elizabeth Shaw. He published several other novels and poems, including his most famous work, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick \u003c\/i\u003e(1851), but his later works were not widely appreciated until long after his death. \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is now considered one of the most important American novels of all time. Melville died on 28 September 1891.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA great book...a deep great artist -- D.H. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful delight -- Nathaniel Philbrick\u003cbr\u003eMoby Dick is my favourite novel, bar none. It works on so many levels. It taught me that you can have a top layer of narrative - like the seafaring story - and then below that all those wonderful, rich, symbolic things going on -- Clive Barker\u003cbr\u003eTo convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOmoo\u003c\/i\u003e has here placed before the reading public, is impossible in the scope of a review. High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased, soaring speculation, a style as many-coloured as the theme, yet always good, and often admirable; fertile fancy, ingenious construction, playful learning, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime, without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in these volumes * London Morning Advertiser, October 24 1851 *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732255715671,"sku":"9780099511182","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099511182.jpg?v=1719996157"},{"product_id":"the-confidenceman-9780140445473","title":"The Confidenceman","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. 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to him, Stubb\u003cbr\u003eThe Pipe\u003cbr\u003eQueen Mab\u003cbr\u003eCetology\u003cbr\u003eThe Specksynder\u003cbr\u003eThe Cabin Table\u003cbr\u003eThe Mast-Head\u003cbr\u003eThe Quarter-Deck • Ahab and all\u003cbr\u003eSunset\u003cbr\u003eDusk\u003cbr\u003eFirst Night-Watch\u003cbr\u003eForecastle---Midnight\u003cbr\u003eMoby Dick\u003cbr\u003eThe Whiteness of the Whale\u003cbr\u003eHark!\u003cbr\u003eThe Chart\u003cbr\u003eThe Affidavit\u003cbr\u003eSurmises\u003cbr\u003eThe Mat-Maker\u003cbr\u003eThe First Lowering\u003cbr\u003eThe Hyena\u003cbr\u003eAhab's Boat and Crew---Fedallah\u003cbr\u003eThe Spirit-Spout\u003cbr\u003eThe Pequod meets the Albatross\u003cbr\u003eThe Gam\u003cbr\u003eThe Town Ho's Story\u003cbr\u003eMonstrous Pictures of Whales\u003cbr\u003eLess Erroneous Pictures of Whales\u003cbr\u003eOf Whales in Paint, in Teeth, \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003eBrit\u003cbr\u003eSquid\u003cbr\u003eThe Line\u003cbr\u003eStubb kills a Whale\u003cbr\u003eThe Dart\u003cbr\u003eThe Crotch\u003cbr\u003eStubb's Supper\u003cbr\u003eThe Whale as a Dish\u003cbr\u003eThe Shark Massacre\u003cbr\u003eCutting In\u003cbr\u003eThe Blanket\u003cbr\u003eThe Funeral\u003cbr\u003eThe Sphynx\u003cbr\u003eThe Pequod meets the Jeroboam • Her Story\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkey-rope\u003cbr\u003eStubb \u0026amp; 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