Moby Dick - classic Moby Dick - classic

Moby Dick - classic

Publisher Description

Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey. When Melville's father died in 1832, the young man's financial security went too. For a while he turned to school-mastering and clerking, but failed to make a sustainable income. In 1840 he signed up on the whaler, Acushnet, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was just 21. A whaler's life turned out to be both arduous and dangerous, and in 1842, Melville deserted ship. Out of this experience and a wealth of printed sources, Melville crafted his masterpiece.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2008
17 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
150
Pages
PUBLISHER
OBG Classics
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
2.4
MB
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