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Moby Dick: Or, the Whale

Moby Dick: Or, the Whale

Name: Moby Dick: Or, the Whale
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780140620627

Herman Melville

28/04/1994
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Moby Dick: Or, the Whale par Herman Melville

Résumé

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.