Moby Dick

Herman Melville的Moby Dick - 电子书和有声读物

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Moby-Dick;

or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

Published in 1851 by American novelist and whale enthusiast Herman Melville, Moby Dick is the story of Ishmael, Ahab, Queequeg, Starbuck and other memorable characters in a grand pursuit for revenge - a quest for glory - and a raw portrayal of the depths of the mariner's soul as he stands in the face of absolute annihilation.

In October 1851, the chapter "The Town Ho's Story" was published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. The same month, the whole book was first published in three volumes as The Whale in London, and under its definitive title as a single volume in New York in November. Both editions have hundreds of differences apart, mostly slight and some important. The London publisher censored or changed sensitive passages and Melville made revisions, as well, including the last-minute change in the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in both editions as "Moby Dick", with no hyphen. One factor that led British reviewers to scorn the book was that it seemed to be told by a narrator who perished with the ship; the British edition lacked the Epilogue, which accounts for Ishmael's survival. About 3,200 copies were sold during the author's life.

"This novel describes the ill-fated voyage of the whaling ship Pequod to find and destroy the eponymous white whale, driven by the obsessive Captain Ahab. The language is highly symbolic and many themes run throughout the work. The narrator's reflections, along with complex descriptions of the grueling work of whaling and personalities of his shipmates, are woven into a profound meditation on hubris, providence, nature, society, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness and salvation. Moby-Dick is often considered the epitome of American Romanticism."

— Excerpted from Moby-Dick on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.

"Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first 'modern' novel." (Summary by Stewart Wills)