Name: Moby Dick;: Or, The Whale
SKU: 58638417
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Author: Anderson, Taylor ; Melville, Herman
ISBN: 9781974064281

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Taylor Anderson

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

598

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x3.1 cm

Weight

0.79 kg.

ISBN13

9781974064281

Synopsis "Moby Dick;: Or, The Whale"

Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville was originally published in 1851. The story is told by a sailor Ismael about a captain Ahab, obsessed with revenge on a whale, Moby Dick, a white whale, that on a previous voyage had maimed Ahad by biting off his leg. The Novel was a disaster when published and didn't gain notoriety until after Melville's death during the 20th century at the time of the "Great American Novel." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama. This is the larger 12 point print version of the book.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (New York, August 1, 1819-New York, September 28, 1891)1 was an American writer, novelist, poet, and essayist from the American Renaissance period. Among his most famous novels are Typee (1846), based on his experiences in Polynesia, and the novel Moby Dick (1851),1 considered his masterpiece and a classic of world literature

Between 1853 and 1855, he published a series of stories in Putnam Magazine, most of which were collected in The Piazza Tales, including two of Melville's most important narratives: the story Bartleby, the Scrivener and the novella Benito Cereno. Also featured is the story The Encantadas, consisting of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands linked by a single narrator. In 1857, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, also known as The Confidence-Man, was the last prose fiction work he published. Seeking financial stability, he abandoned writing, accepting a position as a customs inspector

In his later years, in which he also had to endure the death of two of his brothers as well as the death of two of his sons, Clarence, from tuberculosis, and Malcolm from a possible suicide, as well as the death of another of his sons at thirty-five years old, Stanwix Melville, he dedicated himself to writing poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, from 1866, is a poetic reflection on the Civil War and Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a fictional epic poem, published in 1876. The novel Billy Budd, which he left unfinished and was posthumously published in London in 1924, is considered one of the most significant works of American literature.

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