Moby-Dick (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
672
Utgivningsdatum
2010-03-04
Upplaga
ed
Förlag
Penguin Classics
Medarbetare
Philbrick, Nathaniel
Illustratör/Fotograf
Tony Millionaire
Illustrationer
Illustrations
Dimensioner
218 x 138 x 44 mm
Vikt
690 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780143105954

Moby-Dick

Or, The Whale

Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-03-04
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In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound enquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception.
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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.