Moby Dick with Study Guide and Summary (Deluxe eBook Edition)

by Herman Melville, J. Sutherland

Overview

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship’s strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.

Includes a Study Guide and Summary for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

If you are looking for a super-efficient way to study and understand a work of classic literature, here it is! Start with a quick overview and short essay questions and follow-up with a concise chapter-by-chapter summary of the book!

If you have already read the book, follow up with this outline. It will take you through the steps of breaking it down. If you have not read it yet, this is the perfect time to start out with the summary! Knowing the summary ahead of time will make the reading of the entire book much more smooth and fluent, making key elements easier to remember.

Includes the original novel in its entirety with active links to the novel and study guide.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012903075
Publisher:	Jamie Sutherland
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15