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Features Captain Ahab who is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. This title is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-119960-3
ProduktartBuch
EinbandGebunden
ErscheinungslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum26.09.2013
ReihePenguin Clothbound Classics
Seiten720 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 136 mm, Höhe 200 mm, Dicke 46 mm
Gewicht840 g
Artikel-Nr.2781959
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.14068744
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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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