by Herman Melville · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260087
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«Moby Dick» is the classic adventure novel by Herman Melville, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (544 pages, in English).
The story follows Ishmael, a sailor who boards the whaler Pequod, whose captain, Ahab, drives the crew on an obsessive hunt for the white whale that tore off his leg. The voyage becomes an exploration of obsession and revenge, with abundant digressions on whaling and life at sea.
The novel was originally published in 1851 under the title «Moby-Dick; or, The Whale». This Wordsworth Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by David Herd and the complete text.
For readers of world literature classics and fans of sea adventure narratives.
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.
