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- Herausgeber: Maria Teresa Marinelli
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a "Great American Novel" was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous. Melville began writing Moby-Dick in February 1850, and finished 18 months later, a year longer than he had anticipated. Melville drew on his experience as a common sailor from 1841 to 1844, including several years on whalers, and on wide reading in whaling literature. The white whale is modeled on the notoriously hard-to-catch albino whale Mocha Dick, and the book's ending is based on the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820. His literary influences include Shakespeare and the Bible. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. In addition to narrative prose, Melville uses styles and literary devices ranging from songs, poetry, and catalogs to Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies, and asides. In August 1850, with the manuscript perhaps half finished, he met Nathaniel Hawthorne and was deeply moved by his Mosses from an Old Manse, which he compared to Shakespeare in its cosmic ambitions. This encounter may have inspired him to revise and expand Moby-Dick, which is dedicated to Hawthorne, "in token of my admiration for his genius". The book was first published (in three volumes) as The Whale in London in October 1851, and under its definitive title in a single-volume edition in New York in November. The London publisher, Richard Bentley, censored or changed sensitive passages; Melville made revisions as well, including a last-minute change to the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in the text of both editions as "Moby Dick", without the hyphen. Reviewers in Britain were largely favorable, though some objected that the tale seemed to be told by a narrator who perished with the ship, as the British edition lacked the Epilogue recounting Ishmael's survival. American reviewers were more hostile. About 3,200 copies of the book were sold during the author's life. From Wipikedia.
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Table of contents
Table of contents
Preface By Giancarlo Rossini
Chapter 1 - Loomings
Chapter 2 - The Carpet-Bag
Chapter 3 - The Spouter Inn
Chapter 4 - The Counterpane
Chapter 5 - Breakfast
Chapter 6 - The Street
Chapter 7 - The Chapel
Chapter 8 - The Pulpit
Chapter 9 - The Sermon
Chapter 10 - A Bosom Friend
Chapter 11 - Nightgown
Chapter 12 - Biographical
Chapter 13 - Wheelbarrow
Chapter 14 - Nantucket
Chapter 15 - Chowder
Chapter 16 - The Ship
Chapter 17 - The Ramadan
Chapter 18 - His Mark
Chapter 19 - The Prophet
Chapter 20 - All Astir
Chapter 21 - Going Aboard
Chapter 22 - Merry Christmas
Chapter 23 - The Lee Shore
Chapter 24 - The Advocate
Chapter 25 - Postscript
Chapter 26 - Knights and Squires
Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires
Chapter 28 - Ahab
Chapter 29 - Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
Chapter 30 - The Pipe
Chapter 31 - Queen Mab
Chapter 32 - Cetology
Chapter 33 - The Specksynder
Chapter 34 - The Cabin-Table
Chapter 35 - The Mast-Head
Chapter 36 - The Quarter-Deck
Chapter 37 - Sunset
Chapter 38 - Dusk
Chapter 39 - First Night-Watch
Chapter 40 - Midnight, Forecastle
Chapter 41 - Moby Dick
Chapter 42 - The Whiteness of The Whale
Chapter 43 - Hark!
Chapter 44 - The Chart
Chapter 45 - The Affidavit
Chapter 46 - Surmises
Chapter 47 - The Mat-Maker
Chapter 48 - The First Lowering
Chapter 49 - The Hyena
Chapter 50 - Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah
Chapter 51 - The Spirit-Spout
Chapter 52 - The Albatross
Chapter 53 - The Gam
Chapter 54 - The Town-Ho's Story
Chapter 55 - Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
Chapter 56 - Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes
Chapter 57 - Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars
Chapter 58 - Brit
Chapter 59 - Squid
Chapter 60 - The Line
Chapter 61 - Stubb Kills a Whale
Chapter 62 - The Dart
Chapter 63 - The Crotch
Chapter 64 - Stubb's Supper
Chapter 65 - The Whale as a Dish
Chapter 66 - The Shark Massacre
Chapter 67 - Cutting In
Chapter 68 - The Blanket
Chapter 69 - The Funeral
Chapter 70 - The Sphynx
Chapter 71 - The Jeroboam's Story
Chapter 72 - The Monkey-Rope
Chapter 73 - Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale and Then Have a Talk Over Him
Chapter 74 - The Sperm Whale's Head - Contrasted View
Chapter 75 - The Right Whale's Head - Contrasted View
Chapter 76 - The Battering-Ram
Chapter 77 - The Great Heidelburgh Tun
Chapter 78 - Cistern and Buckets
Chapter 79 - The Prairie
Chapter 80 - The Nut
Chapter 81 - The Pequod Meets The Virgin
Chapter 82 - The Honor and Glory of Whaling
Chapter 83 - Jonah Historically Regarded
Chapter 84 - Pitchpoling
Chapter 85 - The Fountain
Chapter 86 - The Tail
Chapter 87 - The Grand Armada
Chapter 88 - Schools and Schoolmasters
Chapter 89 - Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
Chapter 90 - Heads or Tails
Chapter 91 - The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud
Chapter 92 - Ambergris
Chapter 93 - The Castaway
Chapter 94 - A Squeeze of the Hand
Chapter 95 - The Cassock
Chapter 96 - The Try-Works
Chapter 97 - The Lamp
Chapter 98 - Stowing Down and Clearing Up
Chapter 99 - The Doubloon
Chapter 100 - Leg and Arm. - The Pequod of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London
Chapter 101 - The Decanter
Chapter 102 - A Bower in the Arsacides
Chapter 103 - Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton
Chapter 104 - The Fossil Whale
Chapter 105 - Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish? Will He Perish?
Chapter 106 - Ahab's Leg
Chapter 107 - The Carpenter
Chapter 108 - Ahab and the Carpenter
Chapter 109 - Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
Chapter 110 - Queequeg in His Coffin
Chapter 111 - The Pacific
Chapter 112 - The Blacksmith
Chapter 113 - The Forge
Chapter 114 - The Gilder
Chapter 115 - The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
Chapter 116 - The Dying Whale
Chapter 117 - The Whale Watch
Chapter 118 - The Quadrant
Chapter 119 - The Candles
Chapter 120 - The Deck Toward the End of the First Night Watch
Chapter 121 - Midnight - The Forecastle Bulwarks
Chapter 122 - Midnight Aloft.- Thunder and Lightning
Chapter 123 - The Musket
Chapter 124 - The Needle
Chapter 125 - The Log and Line
Chapter 126 - The Life-Buoy
Chapter 127 - The Deck
Chapter 128 - The Pequod Meets The Rachel
Chapter 129 - The Cabin
Chapter 130 - The Hat
Chapter 131 - The Pequod Meets The Delight
Chapter 132 - The Symphony
Chapter 133 - The Chase - First Day
Chapter 134 - The Chase - Second Day
Chapter 135 - The Chase - Third Day
Epilogue
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