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Beschreibung

Tells the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-119895-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
FormatB-Format Paperback (UK)
ErscheinungslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum26.04.2012
ReiheThe Penguin English Library
Seiten720 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 128 mm, Höhe 197 mm, Dicke 32 mm
Gewicht489 g
Artikel-Nr.2503585
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.12100945
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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.

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