Herman Melville: Moby-Dick | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780141198958 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | Taschenbuch | 684 S. | Englisch | 2012

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Beschreibung

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Über den Autor

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	The Penguin English Library
Inhalt:	684 S.
ISBN-13:	9780141198958
ISBN-10:	0141198958
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Melville, Herman
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Penguin Classics
Abbildungen:	Illustrations
Maße:	195 x 128 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Herman Melville
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.04.2012
Gewicht:	0,489 kg

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