Herman Melville: Moby-Dick | Buch

Cover: 9780141199603 | Moby-Dick | Or, the Whale | Herman Melville | Buch | LII | Englisch

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. More than just a novel of adventure, this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception.

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	LII 668 S. illustrations
ISBN-13:	9780141199603
ISBN-10:	0141199601
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Leinen (Buchleinen)
Autor:	Melville, Herman
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Penguin Classics Penguin Clothbound Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	206 x 137 x 46 mm
Von/Mit:	Herman Melville
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,86 kg