Moby Dick (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) by Herman Melville essays An avid fantasy reader from

An avid fantasy reader from the day her dad handed her a copy of The Hobbit and promised it would change her life

A Candlemas Dialogue

With grounding cedarwood and vetiver

William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic

This is a legend

Moby Dick (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) by Herman Melville essays An avid fantasy reader fromMoby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the