Moby Dick; Or, the Whale de Herman Melville

Moby Dick; Or, the Whale

Herman Melville

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"Call me Ishmael." Thus begins Herman Melville's most remembered work, about the obsession of Captain Ahab in his fruitless search for the white whale. One of the greatest books ever written, Moby Dick remains as powerful today as when it was first published.

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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.