Pobre and Orgulloso (Translated): Poor and Proud, Spanish edition

Pobre and Orgulloso (Translated): Poor and Proud, Spanish edition

by Herman Melville
Pobre and Orgulloso (Translated): Poor and Proud, Spanish edition

Pobre and Orgulloso (Translated): Poor and Proud, Spanish edition

by Herman Melville

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Overview

"Es la horrible textura de una tela que debería estar tejida con cables y guindacables de barcos. Un viento polar sopla a través de ella y las aves de rapiña se ciernen sobre ella".

Entonces Melville escribió sobre su obra maestra, una de las mejores obras de imaginación en la historia literaria. En parte, Moby-Dick es la historia de un loco misteriosamente convincente que persigue una guerra impía contra una criatura tan vasta, peligrosa e incognoscible como el mar mismo. Pero más que una novela de aventuras, más que una enciclopedia de la historia y la leyenda de la caza de ballenas, el libro puede verse como parte de la meditación de toda la vida de su autor sobre América. Escrito con un humor maravillosamente redentor, Moby-Dick es también una investigación profunda sobre el carácter, la fe y la naturaleza de la percepción.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788835816560
Publisher: Paloma Nieves
Publication date: 04/28/2020
Sold by: StreetLib SRL
Format: eBook
File size: 599 KB
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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