Why did I love this book?
I had read Melville’s Billy Budd as a school assignment, so I thought I knew what I was in for with Moby-Dick: sailors, the arcane and elided names of ship parts, and one man’s vendetta against a whale. What I wasn’t expecting was the deadly, gore-filled business of whaling. The cetology chapter blew my mind and forever altered my understanding of what I could expect from a novel. I remain in awe of the impossibility of the goal that took men out to sea with eighteenth-century technology to hunt animals as large as their boats, equally unbelieving at the terrible and disastrous efficacy with which they succeeded at their task.
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Melville's tale of the whaling industry, and one captain's obsession with revenge against the Great White Whale that took his leg. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Herman Melville and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the work at hand.