Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Author: Herman Melville
Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback “Clothbound Classics” series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. In Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick”, Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (….Read More
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