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Classic Starts®: Moby-Dick

Contributors

By Herman Melville

Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead

Illustrated by Eric Freeberg

Afterword by Arthur Pober

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$7.99

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$10.99 CAD

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  1. Hardcover $7.99 $10.99 CAD
  2. ebook $3.99
  3. Trade Paperback $9.99 $12.99 CAD

Call me Ishmael. These three famous words begin one of America’s most epic novels, a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew, and an elusive white whale named Moby-Dick.  The massive original, however, can be very hard for young readers to navigate.  This beautifully abridged and adventure-filled version will thrill children and whet their appetite for the complete work—when they are ready to tackle it.

On Sale
Feb 2, 2010
Page Count
160 pages
Publisher
Union Square Kids
ISBN-13
9781402766442

Herman Melville

About the Author

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick—largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville’s fall from favor with the reading public — was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. 

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