Moby Dick Or The Whale

The classic American novel about the doomed voyage of the Pequod in pursuit of the enigmatic white whale

Books about Moby Dick

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Often considered the embodiment of American Romanticism, Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18, 1851

Herman Melville (1819-1891, geboren als Herman Melvill) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Essayist. Melvilles »Moby Dick« gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Seefahrer-Romane der Weltliteratur und ist auch nach über 160 Jahren immer noch spannend zu lesen. Er zeigt bildhaft die Unbezwingbarkeit von Natur und Schicksal. Melville ließ seine eigenen

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (Anglistik), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Melville, 19 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Herausgeber und enge Freund Herman Melvilles, der Amerikaner August Evert Duyckinck (1816-78), schreibt 1851 nach dem Erscheinen der ersten Ausgabe des Buches Moby Dick:

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and

A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.

Moby Dick is regularly hailed as one of the greatest works of American literature. But suppose Ishmael had instead shared his tale in tweets? #Moby-Dick or The Whale in Tweets hilariously reimagines Herman Melville's classic whaling novel in just 200 tweets, each 140 characters or less. Ishmael here! Went broke

Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), course: The Forms of Melville's Fiction, language: English, comment: Well researched , abstract: 1. Introduction The publication of Melville's Moby-Dick or, The Whale in 1851 caused a vast range

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