Moby-Dick Herman Melville

Name: Moby-Dick par Herman Melville
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Moby-Dick Herman Melville

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SérieThe Penguin English Library

Résumé

Tells the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost.

Moby-Dick Résumé

Moby-Dick Herman Melville

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...'

Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind.

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À propos de Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

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GOR008068263

ISBN 13

9780141198958

ISBN 10

0141198958

Titre

Moby-Dick Herman Melville

Auteur

Herman Melville

Série

The Penguin English Library

État

Occasion - Comme neuf

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Penguin Books Ltd

Année de publication

2012-04-26

Nombre de pages

720

Prix

N/A

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