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Moby Dick di Herman Melville
"Chiamatemi Ismaele" con queste parole ha inizio uno dei più grandi capolavori con queste parole ha inizio uno dei più grandi capolavori della letteratura mondiale. Moby Dick è molto più di una della letteratura mondiale. Moby Dick è molto più di una semplice storia di caccia a una è un viaggio epico semplice storia di caccia a una è un viaggio epico tra le onde dell'oceano e i meandri dell’animo umano.
Capolavoro della letteratura mondiale: Un romanzo epico considerato tra i più grandi della narrativa americana.Avventura mozzafiato in mare aperto: Ideale per chi ama i romanzi d’avventura e storie di mare.
Personaggi indimenticabili: Il Capitano Achab e Moby Dick sono entrati nell’immaginario collettivo.
Temi universali e profondi: Ossessione, vendetta, destino e natura umana.
Edizione curata e completa: Testo integrale con stampa di alta qualità per una lettura piacevole.
"Moby Dick" di Herman Melville è un'opera monumentale, un romanzo d’avventura ricco di significato e suggestione. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1851, continua a conquistare lettori in tutto il mondo grazie alla potenza della sua narrazione e alla profondità dei suoi temi. Questa nuova edizione propone il testo integrale in una versione curata e adatta sia agli appassionati di classici che ai nuovi lettori.
La storia segue il viaggio del giovane narratore Ishmael a bordo della baleniera Pequod, capitanata dal carismatico e tormentato Capitano Ahab. Ossessionato dal desiderio di vendetta contro Moby Dick, la leggendaria balena bianca che gli ha strappato una gamba, Ahab condurrà l’equipaggio in un’epica caccia che sfida l’oceano, il destino e la ragione umana.
Con un linguaggio ricco e poetico, Melville intreccia aneddoti nautici realistici, descrizioni dettagliate di baleniere, leggende e riflessioni filosofiche, offrendo un'esperienza di lettura intensa e coinvolgente. Ogni pagina è un'immersione in un mondo affascinante e selvaggio, popolato da marinai coraggiosi, creature gigantesche e lotte interiori.
Perfetto per gli amanti dei romanzi classici, delle grandi storie di mare e di avventure senza tempo, "Moby Dick" è un libro da leggere almeno una volta nella vita.
Capolavoro della letteratura mondiale: Un romanzo epico considerato tra i più grandi della narrativa americana.Avventura mozzafiato in mare aperto: Ideale per chi ama i romanzi d’avventura e storie di mare.
Personaggi indimenticabili: Il Capitano Achab e Moby Dick sono entrati nell’immaginario collettivo.
Temi universali e profondi: Ossessione, vendetta, destino e natura umana.
Edizione curata e completa: Testo integrale con stampa di alta qualità per una lettura piacevole.
"Moby Dick" di Herman Melville è un'opera monumentale, un romanzo d’avventura ricco di significato e suggestione. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1851, continua a conquistare lettori in tutto il mondo grazie alla potenza della sua narrazione e alla profondità dei suoi temi. Questa nuova edizione propone il testo integrale in una versione curata e adatta sia agli appassionati di classici che ai nuovi lettori.
La storia segue il viaggio del giovane narratore Ishmael a bordo della baleniera Pequod, capitanata dal carismatico e tormentato Capitano Ahab. Ossessionato dal desiderio di vendetta contro Moby Dick, la leggendaria balena bianca che gli ha strappato una gamba, Ahab condurrà l’equipaggio in un’epica caccia che sfida l’oceano, il destino e la ragione umana.
Con un linguaggio ricco e poetico, Melville intreccia aneddoti nautici realistici, descrizioni dettagliate di baleniere, leggende e riflessioni filosofiche, offrendo un'esperienza di lettura intensa e coinvolgente. Ogni pagina è un'immersione in un mondo affascinante e selvaggio, popolato da marinai coraggiosi, creature gigantesche e lotte interiori.
Perfetto per gli amanti dei romanzi classici, delle grandi storie di mare e di avventure senza tempo, "Moby Dick" è un libro da leggere almeno una volta nella vita.
633 pages, Paperback
Published April 19, 2025
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Herman Melville
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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book, and its sequel, Omoo (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. Mardi (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not well received. Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both tales based on his experience as a well-born young man at sea, were given respectable reviews, but did not sell well enough to support his expanding family.
Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as a United States customs inspector.
From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book, and its sequel, Omoo (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. Mardi (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not well received. Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both tales based on his experience as a well-born young man at sea, were given respectable reviews, but did not sell well enough to support his expanding family.
Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as a United States customs inspector.
From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.
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