First American edition of the author\'s masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab\'s obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. Captain Ahab as an eerily compelling madman focuses his distilled hatred and suffering and that of generations before him into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.This title ...

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Author: Omar Khayyam

Translator: Edward FitzGerald

Illustrator: Elihu Vedder

Commissioner: John Stonehouse

Cover design: Francis Sangorski

Desktop publishing: Willem v.d. Berg

Printing: Pumbo B.V.

The history of this book and the tragic story behind it are not less important than its contents.

Omar Khayyam was famous during his lifetime in the 12th century not as a poet but as an astronomer and mathematician.

Although the authenticity of all the poetry attributed to Omar Kh...

Max Havelaar van Multatuli is het absolute hoogtepunt van de Nederlandse literatuur en ontegenzeggelijk een van de grootste literaire werken ooit. Meestal lezen we een sterk bewerkte, geannoteerde en dus afgezwakte versie maar dit is de oorspronkelijke en dus de ongerepte, onvervormde uitgave. Deze eerste uitgave van Max Havelaar geeft heel nauwkeurig het oorspronkelijk concept van de auteur weer zoals het in 1860 door De Ruyter werd uitgegeven. Max Havelaar is een raamvertelling waarin een o...

In the distant future the World Controllers have created the ideal society.

Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries, learn by conditioning to accept their social destiny.

By means of clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all members of this society are happy consumers.

Bernard Marx seems to be the only individual that harbours an ill-defined longing to break free from this ...

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Author: Omar Khayyam

Translator: Edward FitzGerald

Illustrator: Elihu Vedder

Cover design: Elihu Vedder

Desktop publishing: Willem v.d. Berg

Printing: Pumbo B.V.

Omar Khayyam was famous during his lifetime in the 12th century not as a poet but as an astronomer and mathematician.

Although the authenticity of all the poetry attributed to Omar Khayyam is not completely certain, Edward FitzGerald published in 1859 the English translation of 75 quatrains which with certainty belong...