by Herman Melville · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140623178
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«Moby Dick» is Herman Melville's adventure novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (544 pages, in English).
The novel recounts Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for a great white whale, having sworn revenge on the animal that maimed him. Melville combines maritime adventure with detailed descriptions of whaling and a profound reflection on faith, character, and the nature of perception.
Novel originally published in 1851 under the title «Moby-Dick; or, The Whale». This edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers of classics of world literature and those wishing to approach one of the great American novels of the nineteenth century.
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.
