by Herman Melville · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430820
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«Moby Dick» is the adventure novel by Herman Melville, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (1024 pages, in English).
The novel follows the crew of the whaler Pequod on a voyage that becomes dominated by Captain Ahab's obsession, determined to hunt down the great white whale. Alongside life on board and the trade of whaling, the work incorporates a dense play of allusions, parodies, and reflections on obsession, revenge, and human nature.
The edition belongs to the English Library series and includes an introduction and commentary by Harold Beaver. The work was originally published in 1851.
Recommended for readers of American literary classics and adventure fiction, with a taste for nineteenth-century literature.
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.
