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> With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review' > Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. > But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. > Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. *Moby Dick* is the greatest novel ever written by an American. -- Back Cover
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Moby Dick, Herman Melville
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- Titolo
- Moby Dick
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Herman Melville
- Editore
- Wordsworth Editions
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 544
- ISBN10
- 1853260088
- ISBN13
- 9781853260087
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Avventura, Classici, Letteratura Americana, Adattato in un film, Mare e oceani, Navigazione marittima, Cacciatori, Classicismo, Marinai, Balene, Baleneria, Premio Josef Jungmann, Moby Dick
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1851
- Titolo originale
- Moby Dick or the White Whale
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- > With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review' > Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. > But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. > Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. *Moby Dick* is the greatest novel ever written by an American. -- Back Cover