Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

\"No man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. \"

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by American author Herman Melville, is an 1851 novel. The book is the story by sailor Ishmael about the relentless search of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance on Moby Dick, the massive white sperm whale that bit off Ahab\'s leg at the knee on the ship\'s earlier voyage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ¿¿¿¿
• Seitenzahl: 550
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9791190059411
• Artikelnr.: 60473679

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.