by Herman Melville · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440202758
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«Moby Dick (la ballena blanca)» is Herman Melville's adventure novel published by Orbis in paperback, in Spanish (314 pages).
The narrator boards a whaler and recounts Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the great white whale that tore off his leg; Ahab has sworn revenge. The novel combines high-seas adventure with a look at life on board and the whaling industry, and weaves together themes such as revenge, nature and the human condition.
1988 edition of the Biblioteca Juvenil de Orbis collection, number 2, with translation by Guillermo López Hipkiss. The novel was originally published in 1851.
Intended for young readers approaching narrative classics for the first time.
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.
