书名：Moby-Dick白鲸

作者：Herman Melville
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1920

语种：英语
ISBN：9780553213119
商品尺寸：10.77 x 2.79 x 17.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：670（以实物为准）

Moby Dick《白鲸》是19世纪美国重要的小说家赫尔曼·梅尔维尔于1851年发表的一篇海洋题材的小说，小说描写了亚哈船长为了追逐并杀死白鲸（实为白色抹香鲸）莫比·迪克，最终与白鲸同归于尽的故事。故事营造了一种让人置身海上航行、随时遭遇各种危险甚至是死亡的氛围，是作者的代表作。适合英语专业学生及对经典英语文学作品感兴趣的读者。

"Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab."--F. O. Matthiessen

《白鲸记》是赫尔曼·梅尔维尔发表于1851年的小说。全书以捕鲸业为题材，主要讲述了捕鲸船船长阿哈（Ahab）与全体船员追捕南太平洋一条白鲸莫比敌的历险故事，被誉为“捕鲸的百科全书”。整个故事以这个水手伊希梅尔（Ishmael）自述的方式展开。

First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.”

The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power.

Filtered through the consciousness of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales, while reaching existential depths that excite debate and contemplation to this day.

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔（1819-1891），19世纪美国伟大的小说家、散文家和诗人之一，与纳撒尼尔·霍桑齐名，梅尔维尔生前没有引起应有的重视，在20世纪二十年代声名鹊起，被普遍认为是美国文学的巅峰人物之一。

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), American Fictions, and Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature.