白鲸记 西北大学出版社版本为基础 附注释

(PBC)Moby-Dick : or, The Whale

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 720 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Classics

ISBN:9780142437247

Published:27 Feb 2003

Classifications:Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Weight:480g

Dimensions:195 x 126 x 31 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸记》堪称“美国伟大小说”的典范，是对痴迷的精湛研究。企鹅经典出版社出版的这本版本包含安德鲁·德尔布兰科撰写的序言和汤姆·奎克的注释。“叫我以实玛利。”赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的这部杰作，也是文学史上伟大的想象力作品之一，以此开头。

当以实玛利被卷入亚哈船长猎杀白鲸“白鲸记”的执念之旅时，他发现自己陷入了一场善与恶的形而上学斗争。《白鲸记》不仅仅是一部冒险小说，也不仅仅是一曲对捕鲸传说和传奇的赞歌，它更是一部令人难忘的社会评论，塑造了一些文学史上经久不衰的人物；从船尾贵格会大副斯塔巴克到身上有纹身的波利尼西亚鱼叉手奎奎格，“裴廓德号”的船员们，构成了世界的一个缩影，是梅尔维尔毕生对美国沉思的高峰之作。《白鲸记》以绝妙的救赎式幽默写成，是对性格、信念和感知本质的深刻而诗意的探究。

企鹅经典出版社出版的这本版本基于西北大学出版社的版本，包含安德鲁·德尔班科撰写的评论性导言，以及宝贵的注释、地图、插图和航海术语表。赫尔曼·梅尔维尔如今被认为是美国伟大的小说家之一。他小说的大部分素材都取材于他自己在捕鲸船上担任海员的经历。

他于1851年创作了他的杰作《白鲸》，并于1891年去世。如果您喜欢《白鲸记》，您可能会喜欢米格尔·德·塞万提斯的《堂吉诃德》，该书在企鹅经典出版社也有售。

“读完《白鲸》，你会增强你的惊奇感，你会扩大你的宇宙观。”E。M. 福斯特

“世界上奇特、精彩的书之一……它触动心灵，令人敬畏。”D。H. 劳伦斯

The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. 'Call me Ishmael.'So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.

As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an paean to whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod, from stern, Quaker First Mate Starbuck, to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg, are a vision of the world in microcosm, the pinnacle of Melville's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is a profound, poetic inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

Based on the Northwestern University Press edition, this Penguin Classics edition includes a critical introduction by Andrew Delbanco, as well as valuable explanatory notes, maps, illustrations and a glossary of nautical terms. Herman Melville is now regarded as one of America's greatest novelists. Much of the material for his novels was drawn from his own experience as a seaman aboard whaling ships.

He wrote his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851, and died in 1891. If you enjoyed Moby-Dick, you may like Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, also available in Penguin Classics.

'After reading Moby-Dick, you will have enhanced your sense of wonder, you will have increased the size of your universe'E.M. Forster

'One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world ... It moves awe in the soul'D.H. Lawrence

作者简介

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔（1819-1891）在二十多岁时成为一位非常成功的异域小说作家，其作品以他作为水手的经历为基础——他很快就创作了《泰比》、《奥姆》、《雷德伯恩》和《白夹克》。然而，他的杰作《白鲸记》却未获理解，而他后来的其他作品，例如《抄写员巴特比》和《骗子》，如今已成为他名声的基石，也都以失败告终。梅尔维尔停止了小说创作，他漫长的余生先是担任讲师，之后又在纽约市担任了十九年的海关官员。他还创作了长诗《克莱尔》，但同样遭到冷遇。在他生命的尽头，他创作了《水手比利·巴德》，该书于1924年在他去世后出版。

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.