经典小说收藏版系列：白鲸 英文原版 Wordsworth Collectors Editions：Moby Dick Herman Melville

基本信息

Format Hardback | 608 pages

Dimensions 129 x 178 x 48mm | 551g

Publication date 01 Oct 2022

Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Language English

ISBN10 184022830X

ISBN13 9781840228304

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

赫尔曼·麦尔维尔（1819-1891），美国文学史上杰出的浪漫主义小说家之一，《白鲸》是他的代表作。捕鲸船“裴廊德”号船长亚哈，在一次捕鲸过程中，被凶残聪明的白鲸莫比-迪克咬掉了一条腿，因此他满怀复仇之念，一心想追捕这条白鲸，竟至失去理性，变成一个独断独行的偏热症狂。他的船几乎兜遍了全世界经历辗转，终于与莫比-迪克遭遇。经过三天追踪，他用鱼叉击中白鲸，但船被白鲸撞破，亚哈被鱼叉上的绳子缠住，带人海中。全船人落海，只有水手以实玛利一人得救，来向人们讲述这个故事。作者赋予莫比-迪克的白色象征天真无邪和恐怖，以白鲸象征善和恶的混合，这也是人世的基本状况。这部小说以充实的思想内容、史诗船的规模和成熟、深思性质的文笔，成为传世佳作。

Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.

But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.

Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.

作者简介

赫尔曼·麦尔维尔（Herman Melville, 1819 -1891），19世纪美国杰出小说家，代表作《白鲸》被毛姆列入“世界文学十大小说”。早年在捕鲸船上当过水手，这深刻影响了他日后的写作。生前并未引起足够重视，过世后三十年声名鹊起。被誉为美国的“莎士比亚”。

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.