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Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer

  • Sena Jeter Naslund

2.00

3 ratings

E-Book extras: ONE: An Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund: "The Ship of My Book"; TWO: Author's Note: "The Surprise and Pleasure of It"; THREE: Reading Group Guide: Discussion Points.The famous international bestseller is now a special-features-packed e-book. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe -- an epic-scale, enthralling, and deliciously readable saga, spanning the full, rich, eventful, and dramatic life of one Una Spenser, for whom "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." Illustrated throughout by world-renowned artist Christopher Wormell.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Captain Ahab (Fictitious character)
  • Ship captains' spouses
  • Whalers' spouses
  • Women
  • Nantucket island (mass.), fiction
  • Married people, fiction
  • Ahab, captain (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general
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  • Sena Jeter Naslund

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    3 ratings · 24 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    William Morrow

    1999

  • Edition cover

    Tandem Library

    September 2003

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    August 2, 2005

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    William Morrow and Co.

    1999

Edition cover

HarperCollins

2003

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    October 1, 2000

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    August 2, 2005