by Herman Melville · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620627
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«Moby Dick» is Herman Melville's adventure novel, published in paperback by Penguin Classics in 1994 (544 pages, in English).
The narrator, Ishmael, signs on to the whaling ship Pequod and witnesses the pursuit that Captain Ahab undertakes against the enormous white whale that marked him. The work combines high-seas adventure with digressions on whaling and reflections on obsession, fate, and the human condition.
The full original title is «Moby-Dick; or, The Whale»; the novel was first published in 1851.
For those interested in classics, maritime adventures, and nineteenth-century American fiction.
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.
