Moby Dick: Edición Juvenil, ilustrada y anotada

Moby Dick: Edición Juvenil, ilustrada y anotada

by Herman Melville
Moby Dick: Edición Juvenil, ilustrada y anotada

Moby Dick: Edición Juvenil, ilustrada y anotada

by Herman Melville

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Overview

Moby Dick narra la travesía del barco ballenero Pequod, comandado por el capitán Acab, en su persecución del cachalote blanco llamado “Moby Dick”, un animal casi mítico, al que se considera imposible de cazar.
Narrada desde el punto de vista de Ismael, un joven marinero enrolado en el Pequod, asistimos a la insomne y autodestructiva búsqueda de la ballena blanca por parte de Acab, quién se vio mutilado por ella en un encuentro previo, y ahora vive obsesionado por la venganza, aun a riesgo de poner en peligro su propia tripulación.
Junto a Ismael y el arponero Queequeg, el lector entra a formar parte de la tripulación y se ve lanzado hasta los confines del mundo, en una búsqueda que es a la vez aventura y maldición en pos de Moby Dick, ese cachalote espectral, escurridizo e invencible, un recipiente alegórico de todas las maldades del ser humano.

En esta edición se presenta una cuidada versión adaptada e ilustrada de Moby Dick, ideal para introducir a los lectores más nuevos de la casa, niños o jóvenes, en una de las mejores obras literarias universales. Y, ¿por qué no? para que los adultos puedan releer y volver a ponerse al día con un clásico de aventuras imprescindible.

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Herman Melville (1819-1891) pasó cuatro años a bordo de un ballenero, en los mares del Sur, lo que le inspiró un buen número de novelas de aventuras. Entre ellas destaca “Moby Dick”, una odisea que encumbró a Melville como uno de los referentes literarios universales.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9791222485942
Publisher: Moai Ediciones
Publication date: 12/16/2023
Sold by: StreetLib SRL
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB
Language: Spanish

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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