Título : | Moby-Dick : or, The Whale | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | Autores: | Herman Melville, Autor | Mención de edición: | 1ª | Editorial: | Penguin Books Ltd | Fecha de publicación: | 1972 | Colección: | The Penguin English Library | Número de páginas: | 1011 p | Il.: | il. b/n. | Dimensiones: | 18 cm | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-0-14-043082-0 | Idioma : | Inglés (eng) | Clasificación: | :Inglés:Literatura:Lecturas Originales
| Resumen: | "It is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it'. So Melville about his masterpiece; and into his tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest of the while whale he poured all of his own youthful experience and a minute study of the literature of whales and whaling; but into it also went other experiences, other reading, other insights...into the 'power of blackness' and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind. |
Moby-Dick : or, The Whale [texto impreso] / Herman Melville, Autor . - 1ª . - [S.l.] : Penguin Books Ltd, 1972 . - 1011 p : il. b/n. ; 18 cm. - ( The Penguin English Library) . ISBN : 978-0-14-043082-0 Idioma : Inglés ( eng) Clasificación: | :Inglés:Literatura:Lecturas Originales
| Resumen: | "It is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it'. So Melville about his masterpiece; and into his tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest of the while whale he poured all of his own youthful experience and a minute study of the literature of whales and whaling; but into it also went other experiences, other reading, other insights...into the 'power of blackness' and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind. |
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