Moby Dick: Deutsche E-Book-Ausgabe des Klassikers der Weltliteratur

by Herman Melville, Wilhelm Strüver (Translator)

Overview

Herman Melvilles "Moby Dick" gehört zu den großen Klassikern der Weltliteratur. Dieses monumentale Werk aus dem 19. Jahrhundert liegt nun in einer hochwertigen deutschen Übersetzung als E-Book vor. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte der Mannschaft des Walfängers Pequod, die sich auf die gnadenlose Jagd nach dem weißen Pottwal Moby Dick begibt. Angetrieben von einer selbstzerstörerischen Besessenheit, hetzt Kapitän Ahab die Crew über die Weltmeere, um den Wal zu stellen, der ihm einst ein Bein kostete. Weit mehr als nur eine spannende Abenteuergeschichte, ist "Moby Dick" ein vielschichtiges Meisterwerk voller Symbolik und philosophischer Tiefe. Melville verwebt existenzielle Fragen nach dem Sinn des Lebens, der Vergänglichkeit und den Grenzen des menschlichen Strebens nach Erkenntnis auf einzigartige Weise. Diese E-Book-Ausgabe bietet die Möglichkeit, den literarischen Meilenstein "Moby Dick" jederzeit griffbereit zu haben und ganz in Melvilles bildgewaltiger Sprache zu versinken.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783689310028
Publisher:	SK Digital Classics
Publication date:	08/30/2024
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	1 MB
Language:	German

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