Moby Dick (Coleccion Clasicos Juveniles)

by Herman Melville

Tom Quirk and Andrew Delbanco (Introduction)

'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of 'some unknown but still reasoning thing'. Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards 'the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale'.

• ISBN10: 0140390847
• ISBN13: 9780140390841
• Publish Date: 3 June 1993 (first published 18 October 1851)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 17 January 2003
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 720
• Language: English

Reviews

[Briana @ Pages Unbound]

First impressions: While there is a lot about Moby Dick that recommends it as the "great American novel"--including originality, tackling of big themes like race, religion, community, etc.--I can't give a full five stars to a book that almost demands some parts to be skimmed. Although whaling is a fascinating industry and occupation, I may never have finished this book if I read in detail every scene about how to whale, prepare a wheel, run a ship, etc. Even if I had read these scenes closely, little of the information would have stuck in my mind, nor would I ever have cause to use it, so it didn't seem particularly worth it. However, this book is not as boring as its reputation in popular culture suggests, and I do recommend it to readers of classics.

[remo]

Es un novelón sobre barcos, la mar y la caza de ballenas, y también es un novelón sore el alma humana, la fijación y la venganza. Desde el Call me Ishmael del principio, el estilo, la atmósfera, son especiales, diferentes. Disfruté mucho de la novela sin haberla llegado a entender en todas sus facetas cuando la leí en clase de literatura, y posteriormente ha ido creciendo en complejidad y matices. Obra maestra.