Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville's masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee.
Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville's masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee.
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Herman Melville (New York, 1819-1891) es una de las principales figuras de la historia de la literatura. Cuatro años a bordo de un ballenero, en los mares del Sur, le inspiraron un buen número de novelas de aventuras: Typee (1846) y Omoo (1847) se basan en sus vivencias en las islas Marquesas; Redburn (1849) y La guerra blanca (1850) describen las duras y degradantes condiciones de vida en la marina. Su obra maestra, en la que vertió magistralmente todas sus inquietudes y su talento literario, fue Moby Dick (1851).
