| Moby-Dick Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544088353 ISBN-13: 9781544088358 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $24.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 730 |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6" W x 9" (1.70 lbs) 584 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The pale Usher-threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true." -HACKLUYT "WHALE... . Sw. and Dan. hval. |