Name: Moby Dick
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Author: Saguez, Edinson ; Melville, Herman
ISBN: 9781530920006

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Illustrated by

Edinson Saguez

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

486

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9781530920006

Synopsis "Moby Dick"

Moby-Dick is a novel by Herman Melville published in 1851. It tells the journey of the whaler (Pequod), commanded by Captain Ahab, in the obsessive and self-destructive pursuit of a great white sperm whale.Apart from persecution and evolution of their characters, the theme of the novel is eminently encyclopedic to include detailed and extensive descriptions of whaling in the nineteenth century and many other details about the marine life of the time. Perhaps that is why the novel had no commercial success in its first publication, although later has served to cement the author's reputation and place among the best American writers.Moby Dick is a work of profound symbolism. It is usually considered that shares characteristics of allegory and epic. It includes references to subjects as diverse as biology, idealism, hierarchy, obsession, politics, pragmatism, racism, religion and revenge.The crew of the Pequod have as varied backgrounds as Chile, China, Denmark, Spain, France, Holland, India, England, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Tahiti, suggesting that the Pequod is a representation of humanity.Biblical allusions of the names of the characters or the meaning of the white sperm whale have intrigued readers and critics for more than a century.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (New York, August 1, 1819-New York, September 28, 1891)1 was an American writer, novelist, poet, and essayist from the American Renaissance period. Among his most famous novels are Typee (1846), based on his experiences in Polynesia, and the novel Moby Dick (1851),1 considered his masterpiece and a classic of world literature

Between 1853 and 1855, he published a series of stories in Putnam Magazine, most of which were collected in The Piazza Tales, including two of Melville's most important narratives: the story Bartleby, the Scrivener and the novella Benito Cereno. Also featured is the story The Encantadas, consisting of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands linked by a single narrator. In 1857, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, also known as The Confidence-Man, was the last prose fiction work he published. Seeking financial stability, he abandoned writing, accepting a position as a customs inspector

In his later years, in which he also had to endure the death of two of his brothers as well as the death of two of his sons, Clarence, from tuberculosis, and Malcolm from a possible suicide, as well as the death of another of his sons at thirty-five years old, Stanwix Melville, he dedicated himself to writing poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, from 1866, is a poetic reflection on the Civil War and Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a fictional epic poem, published in 1876. The novel Billy Budd, which he left unfinished and was posthumously published in London in 1924, is considered one of the most significant works of American literature.

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