Moby Dick

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Beschreibung

<p><strong>With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'</strong>.</p> <p><em>Moby Dick</em> is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.</p> <p>But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.</p> <p>Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education:</p> <p>in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. <em>Moby Dick</em> is the greatest novel ever written by an American.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781853260087

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

Verlag / Hersteller

Wordsworth Editions Ltd