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Moby-Dick; Or, the Whale de Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; Or, the Whale

Autor Herman Melville
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Originally published in 1851, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781547266791
ISBN-10: 1547266791
Pagini: 342
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg

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When Melville completed Moby-Dick, he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that “I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb.” While it took the world some time to appreciate the magnitude of Melville’s achievement, Moby-Dick is now widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature. It is, however, long, and students in semester-long courses will often not have a chance to read the novel in its entirety. The Broadview Moby-Dick: A Selection offers a robust sampling of chapters, chosen to give students a thorough initiation into the novel’s plot, as well as into the full range of its themes and stylistic experimentation. This edition also includes substantial, clear, and helpful annotations to help students successfully navigate Melville’s language and range of references.
This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature. The series is designed to make selections from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts; each edition features an introduction and exaplanatory footnotes, and is designed to meet the needs of today’s students.

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When Melville completed Moby-Dick, he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that “I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb.” While it took the world some time to appreciate the magnitude of Melville’s achievement, Moby-Dick is now widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature. It is, however, long, and students in semester-long courses will often not have a chance to read the novel in its entirety. The Broadview Moby-Dick: A Selection offers a robust sampling of chapters, chosen to give students a thorough initiation into the novel’s plot, as well as into the full range of its themes and stylistic experimentation. This edition also includes substantial, clear, and helpful annotations to help students successfully navigate Melville’s language and range of references.
This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature. The series is designed to make selections from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts; each edition features an introduction and exaplanatory footnotes, and is designed to meet the needs of today’s students.

“Ruddock and Uphaus’s Selections do exactly what the editors mean them to: they create a rich, enticing version of Moby-Dick that will allow the book to appear on introductory literature course syllabi and, in so doing, draw more readers to Melville’s magnificent work.” — Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, University of Connecticut

Cuprins

Introduction
  • Herman Melville
  • Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
from Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
  • Chapter 1. Loomings
  • Chapter 3. The Spouter-Inn
  • Chapter 4. The Counterpane
  • Chapter 10. A Bosom Friend
  • Chapter 11. Nightgown
  • Chapter 12. Biographical
  • Chapter 23. The Lee Shore
  • Chapter 24. The Advocate
  • Chapter 25. Postcript
  • Chapter 26. Knights and Squires
  • Chapter 28. Ahab
  • Chapter 32. Cetology
  • Chapter 36. The Quarter-Deck
  • Chapter 38. Dusk
  • Chapter 41. Moby Dick
  • Chapter 42. The Whiteness of the Whale
  • Chapter 48. The First Lowering
  • Chapter 49. The Hyena
  • Chapter 64. Stubb’s Supper
  • Chapter 68. The Blanket
  • Chapter 87. The Grand Armada
  • Chapter 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
  • Chapter 93. The Castaway
  • Chapter 94. A Squeeze of the Hand
  • Chapter 95. The Cassock
  • Chapter 99. The Doubloon
  • Chapter 102. A Bower in the Arsacides
  • Chapter 128. The Pequod Meets the Rachel
  • Chapter 132. The Symphony
  • Chapter 135. The Chase.—Third Day
  • Epilogue
In Context
  • Nineteenth-Century Images of Whales and Whaling
  • The Story of the Essex
  • Selection of Melville’s Letters to Hawthorne, 1851

Notă biografică

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.