Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleHerman Melvilles masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. Nominated as one of Americas best loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of

to his experiences working as a paramedic on Russia's frontlines and then as a journalist covering the country's violent spiral into revolution

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In an old mansion in Cennethisar (formerly a fishing village

eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father

Publishing in English for the very first time

Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations

Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says

How did the outsider become the ultimate insider

It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream

the book goes beyond pure mathematics to present a series of engrossing biographies of the great mathematicians -- an extraordinary number of whom lived bizarre or unusual lives

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