Moby Dick - Reading And Training - Black Cat - Usado

Autor: Herman Melville

Editorial: Black Cat

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9788853006103

Reseña: A work tantalizingly subversive and yet somehow if not affirming at least forgiving of the blind destructiveness of human nature and of nature itself. -Elizabeth Hardwick Moby-Dick is one of the great epics of all literature. Captain Ahabs hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace while Ishmaels mediations on whales and whaling on the sublime indifference of nature and on the grimy details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong idolatrous quest. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or a critical inquiry into the sinister effects of reducing life to symbols Moby-Dick also offers colorful and often comic glimpses of sea-faring life. For almost thirty years The Library of America has presented Americas best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. Now a new series Library of America Paperback Classics offers attractive and affordable books that bring The Library of Americas authoritative texts within easy reach of every reader. Each book features an introductory essay by one of a leading writer as well as a detailed chronology of the authors life and career an essay on the choice and history of the text and notes. The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from Herman Melville: Redburn White-Jacket Moby-Dick volume number 9 in the Library of America series. It is joined in the series by two companion volumes and together they present Melvilles complete fiction.