Mardi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781981703784)

"[...]to strike fire from their steel. There were other things, also, tending to make my lot on ship-board very hard to be borne. True, the skipper himself was a trump; stood upon no quarter-deck dignity; and had a tongue for a sailor. Let me do him justice, furthermore: he took a sort of fancy for me in particular; was sociable, nay, loquacious, when I happened to stand at the helm. But what of that? Could he talk sentiment or philosophy? Not a bit. His library was eight inches by four: Bowditch, and Hamilton Moore. And what to me, thus pining for some one who could page me a quotation from Burton on Blue Devils; what to me, indeed, were flat [...]."

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1981703780
ISBN-13: 9781981703784
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.54d