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Moby-Dick

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Zusatztext Much of the impact of Melville's book on any fierce new convert is implicit in that sense of time travel. Sometimes I read it and I feel like I'm going backward! fast. It reads like something that was written before books were invented! yet it is utterly modern Informationen zum Autor Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick, which has been hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America. Klappentext Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff. On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Herman Melville's classic American novel in a gorgeous pocket-sized hardback, with an afterword by Nigel Cliff. Zusammenfassung Complete and unabridged. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff. On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. ...

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Authors Herman Melville
Assisted by Nigel Cliff (Introduction), Cliff Nigel (Introduction)
Publisher Macmillan
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Hardback
Released 06.10.2016
 
EAN 9781509826643
ISBN 978-1-5098-2664-3
No. of pages 768
Dimensions 103 mm x 160 mm x 35 mm
Series Collector's Library
Macmillan Collector's Library
Collector's Library
Macmillan Collector's Library
Collector's Library
Collector's Library
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Fantasy, Adventure, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Sea Stories, FICTION / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, c 1800 to c 1900, Adventure fiction, Oceans and seas, Oceans & seas, c 1850 to c 1859

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