It's our goal at Modern Illustrated Classics to make big, difficult books accessible to even the most brain-addled millennial. And where better to start than Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick. This book, hailed by many as the Great American Novel, is a gripping story of whales, revenge, madness, and droning on about whales some more. Our editorial team has carefully distilled this masterpiece to a mere one million pages (less than a tenth of its original length).
This handsomely bound and lavishly illustrated volume will feature:
- All the gay subtext you could hope for.
- Even more chapters, somehow.
- The parts where Melville argues that whales are fish, even though they breathe air with lungs and nurse their young with milk. And even though people had known those facts for, literally, over two thousand years.
- Pirates! Arr.
- Pictures of knots.
- Great parts to stop reading without even realizing it and just kind of zone out for a couple of minutes, until you forget what you've read and have to start the whole damn page over.
- There were pirates in this, right? Cause I'm pretty sure there are now.
While supplies last, each copy of this edition will come with a free ticket to Sea World, so you can experience the ocean's gentle giants being tortured in real life. Available wherever books are still being sold.
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