Moby-Dick

Melville, Herman

ISBN 10 : 0140861726 ISBN 13 : 9780140861723

Editeur : Penguin Audiobooks, 1996

Synopsis

This is the tale of Captain Ahab's search for Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for the loss of one of his legs. Among his crew is Ishmael who recounts the story of the doomed ship and tells of his gruelling rites of passage and the salvation he receives.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Audiobooks
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140861726
• ISBN 13: 9780140861723
• Reliure: Cassette
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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