Moby-Dick - Brossura

Melville, Herman; Renker, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0451526996 ISBN 13: 9780451526991

Casa editrice: Signet Classic, 2009

Riassunto

The fanatical and ruthless Captain Ahab, seeking revenge on the great white whale that had crippled him, sends his crew on dangerous quest to find and kill Moby-Dick, in the nineteenth-century novel about life aboard a whaling ship. Reissue.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Signet Classic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0451526996
• ISBN 13: 9780451526991
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile