{"product_id":"moby-dick-english-edition-herman-melville-9780141198958","title":"Moby-Dick, English edition (Herman Melville)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick \u003c\/i\u003eby Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eHerman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOmoo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRedburn \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhite-Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e. However, his masterpiece \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as \u003ci\u003eBartleby, the Scrivener \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Confidence-Man\u003c\/i\u003e, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem \u003ci\u003eClarel, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e which was published posthumously in 1924.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 720 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66094471774557,"sku":"K032446168","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/3244616800001A.jpg?v=1790838513","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/moby-dick-english-edition-herman-melville-9780141198958","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}