Over Whale - Herman Melville (ISBN: 9789464815795)
Het boek Whale (ISBN:9789464815795) geschreven door Herman Melville bestel je op bruna.nl! First American edition of the author's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. Captain Ahab as an eerily compelling madman focuses his distilled hatred and suffering and that of generations before him into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.This title is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature.Initially discarded by critics and readers when published in 1851 in the 20th century Moby Dick was rediscovered and acknowledged as the greatest of all American novels.Arguably the greatest single work in American literature, Moby-Dick was initially misunderstood by the critics and...
