Moby Dick

The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments ribbon markers luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. American writer Herman Melville wrote <b>Moby Dick </b>in 1851 but it took decades before it was finally regarded as a great American novel and worthy of its place among the greatest texts of humankind. A tale of imagination and adventure it recounts the obsessive quest of Ahab captain of a whaling ship seeking vengeance on Moby Dick the white whale that had bitten off his leg on a previous voyage.