{"product_id":"moby-dick-5","title":"Moby Dick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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\n\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\n\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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the greatest novel ever written by an American.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville, H.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48398364016855,"sku":"9781840228304","price":5.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0498\/4081\/6279\/files\/29_c4e5ace1-5579-40dd-820d-8b4e8d34ae13.png?v=1774245528","url":"https:\/\/theenglishbookshop.com\/products\/moby-dick-5","provider":"The English Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}