by Herman Melville · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194249782
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«Dominoes: Starter: Moby-Dick» is the graded reader in English by Herman Melville, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (56 pages).
Ishmael, a sailor from New York, signs up with the harpooneer Queequeg on the whaler Pequod, captained by Ahab. Starbuck, the first mate, wants to hunt whales for their oil, but Ahab only seeks revenge on the great white whale that tore off his leg years ago. The story raises the question of who survives and what happens to Ishmael.
Book from the Dominoes series, Starter level, adapted by Lesley Thompson and illustrated by Gianluca Garofalo; 3,650 words of text and 250 key words.
For students of English in the last years of primary school and the first years of secondary school.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
