Moby Dick

Informationen zum Autor Herman Melville Klappentext When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he is clueless to the horrors that await him on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis. Considered a failure during Melville's lifetime but now hailed as a classic American novel, Ishmael's story combines symbolism and philosophical debate with gripping adventure narrative in an uncanny and unforgettable fashion. An extract from "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex" by Owen Chase--which inspired Melville's own story--is also included. Zusammenfassung When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.

Product details

• Authors: Herman Melville
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.08.2007
• EAN: 9780099511182
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951118-2
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction: general and literary