Moby Dick - Herman Melville
KORTE INHOUD
'Moby Dick' is one of the world's great tales of quest and high adventure. Captain ahab, his leg taken off by the white whale Moby Dick, sets out in vengeful, obsessive pursuit. With him aboard the fated Peqoud are a motley crew, a microcosm of humanity: the gentle savage Queequeg, the right-minded mates Starbuck and Stubb, Pip the cabin boy, the Indian Tashtego, the African Daggoo, and many unforgettables - including the narrator, who introduces himself with the famous enigmatic opening words, "Call me Ishmael."
The fortunes of the Pecquod, and the tightening thrill of the chase, are punctuated with disgressions as entertaining as Sterne, as pointed as Swift, as exuberant as Joyce. 'Moby Dick' is a great sprawling rattle bag of an epic, a joyous but grim fable brimful with invention and excitement.
Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City, and in his twenties spent several years at sea, first on a whaling ship and then in the U.S. navy. In the 1810s he began to write, and his first publications - 'Tip...
The fortunes of the Pecquod, and the tightening thrill of the chase, are punctuated with disgressions as entertaining as Sterne, as pointed as Swift, as exuberant as Joyce. 'Moby Dick' is a great sprawling rattle bag of an epic, a joyous but grim fable brimful with invention and excitement.
Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City, and in his twenties spent several years at sea, first on a whaling ship and then in the U.S. navy. In the 1810s he began to write, and his first publications - 'Tip...
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