Moby-Dick (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486432157 ISBN 13: 9780486432151

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2003

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Book by Melville Herman

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A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul. A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dick represents the ultimate human struggle.

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A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul.
Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel, and a wealth of information on whales and 19th-century whaling, Melville's greatest work presents an imaginative and thrilling picture of life at sea, as well as a portrait of heroic determination. The author's keen powers of observation and firsthand knowledge of shipboard life (he served aboard a whaler himself) were key ingredients in crafting a maritime story that dramatically examines the conflict between man and nature.

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• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486432157
• ISBN 13: 9780486432151
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464