Moby-Dick is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale who has crippled him. The first American novel to win a place in the literature of the world, it is a masterfully symbolic drama...

"Call me Ishmael." These three famous words begin one of America's most epic novels, a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew, and an elusive white whale named Moby-Dick. The massive original, however, can be very hard for young...

"Moby Dick" von Herman Melville ist eine epische Geschichte des obsessiven Kampfes zwischen dem Kapitän Ahab und dem weißen Wal Moby Dick. Ahab, der Kapitän des Walfangschiffs Pequod, hat ein persönliches Rachemotiv gegen den Wal, der...

An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America's greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennialHerman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth...

Billy Budd von Melville, Herman

Der Roman Moby Dick erschien 1851 zeitgleich in London und New York. Herman Melville erzählt darin von der schicksalhaften Fahrt des Walfangschiffes Pequod und dessen Jagd auf den weißen Pottwal Moby Dick. Der Kapitän des Schiffes hat...

Moby Dick von Melville, Herman

"Moby-Dick" ist eine epische Erzählung des Schriftstellers Herman Melville, die von der obsessiven Jagd des Kapitäns Ahab auf den weißen Wal Moby Dick handelt. Kapitän Ahab ist ein gequälter Seemann, dessen Bein bei einem früheren...

Nachdem Herman Melville 1841 auf einem Walfänger angeheuert hatte, flüchtete er im Jahr darauf während eines Aufenthalts auf den Marquesas Inseln aus seiner Koje. Einige Wochen unter Kannibalen, eine Meuterei und verschiedene...

If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is...

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid le is the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern' novel can be seen as a symbol...

A shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. Melville's comic allegory challenges the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century...