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Moby Dick or the whale / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- 出版： Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg
- 主題： Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. , Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction. , Whales--Fiction. , Sea stories. , Electronic books.
- ISBN： 9780585009490 (ebook) 、 058500949X (ebook)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 摘要註: Its famous opening line, Call me Ishmael, dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey. When Melville's father died in 1832, the young man's financial security went too. For a while he turned to school-mastering and clerking, but failed to make a sustainable income. In 1840 he signed up on the whaler, Acushnet, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was just 21. A whaler's life turned out to be both arduous and dangerous, and in 1842, Melville deserted ship. Out of this experience and a wealth of printed sources, Melville crafted his masterpiece.
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- 系統號： 005138156 | 機讀編目格式
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