Moby Dick or The Whale (Penguin Classics) - Brossura

Melville, Herman

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ISBN 10: 0140390847 ISBN 13: 9780140390841

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2030

Riassunto

Book by Melville Herman

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Reseña del editor:

Herman Melville's sea classic comes to life on the small screen in a 4-hour miniseries directed by Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather series) and starring the highly acclaimed Patrick Stewart.

Biografía del autor:

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2030
• ISBN 10: 0140390847
• ISBN 13: 9780140390841
• Rilegatura: Tapa blanda
• Numero di pagine: 720