Moby-Dick Melville HermanPaperback / softback
Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea and Captain Ahab, a…
Specifikacia Moby-Dick Melville HermanPaperback / softback
Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab s whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God s most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.A novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men, Moby-Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called the greatest of American novels.With an Introduction by Elizabeth Renker and an Afterword by