Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

The Whale

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Moby-Dick, one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, follows the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and Captain Ahab who seeks out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Urban Romantics
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9781787248366
• ISBN-10: 1787248364
• Artikelnr.: 53713495

Autorenporträt

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.