大白鲸 Signet Classics: Moby- Dick

基本信息

by Herman Melville (Author)

Format:Paperback / softback 624 pages

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:Signet Classics

ISBN:9780451532282

Published:2 Jul 2013

Weight:302g

Dimensions:170 x 167 x 34 (mm)

页面数据仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

赫尔曼-麦尔维尔的惊心动魄的航海冒险--一个永恒的寓言，一个关于英雄的决心和冲突的史诗般的传奇。

《白鲸》的核心是强大的、不可知的大海，以及亚哈船长，一个忧郁的、独腿的狂热者，他发誓要向使他残废的猛犸象白鲸复仇。这部小说由加入亚哈捕鲸船的船员以实玛利讲述，讲述了那次令人毛骨悚然的航行，以及那些敢于向上帝可怕的创造物和死亡本身挑战以获得不朽机会的人所接受的艰难困苦和无名恐怖。

《白鲸》这部小说以惊人的活力深入探讨了人的复杂，是一部关于人类斗争的慷慨激昂的戏剧，《大西洋月刊》称之为 "伟大的美国小说"。

Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure-a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.

At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea-and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab's whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God's most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.

A novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men, Moby-Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called "the greatest of American novels."

作者简介

赫尔曼-麦尔维尔（1819-91）的父亲在1832年破产并去世，这使他失去了接受高等教育的机会，并使他永远脱离了传统的人生观。他在学校教书，航行到利物浦再回来，然后在桅杆前航行到太平洋捕鲸。他在马克萨斯群岛开小差，在吃人的泰普西族土著中生活了一个月。一艘澳大利亚捕鲸船将他带到塔希提岛，在那里他因叛变而入狱，但他逃脱了，并在那里做了几个月的海滩管理员。第三艘鲸鱼船把他带到了夏威夷，他在那里住了几个月，然后与美国号护卫舰的船员一起航行回家。从这些冒险中，他写出了广受欢迎的、越来越富有想象力的旅行浪漫小说。Typee》（1846年）、《Omoo》（1847年）、寓言式的《Mardi》（1849年）、《Redburn》（1849年）、《White-Jacket》（1850年），以及他的代表作《Moby-Dick》（1851年）。梅尔维尔于1847年结婚。他后来的小说作品不是海洋浪漫小说，销售情况不佳。他放弃了专业写作，在纽约担任了二十年的海关检查员，并在那里去世。比利-巴德》是他几年写的，于1924年出版，当时正值梅尔维尔的复兴期，大约从1920年开始，一直持续到现在--这种复兴使他成为伟大的美国作家之一。

Herman Melville's (1819-91) father's bankruptcy and death in 1832 deprived him of higher-educational oppotunities and alienated him forever from a conventional view of life. He taught school, sailed to Liverpool and back, then shipped before the mast on a Pacific whaling voyage. He deserted at the Marquesas Islands, living for a month among the cannibal Typee natives. An Australian whaleship then took him to Tahiti, where he was jailed for mutiny, but he escaped and spent some months as a beachcomber. A third whaleship took him to Hawaii, where he lived for some months before sailing home with the crew of the frigate United States. From these adventures came his popular and increasingly imaginative travel romances: Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), the allegorical Mardi (1849), Redburn (1849), White-Jacket (1850), and his masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Melville married in 1847. His later works of fiction were not sea romances and sold poorly. He gave up professional writing and for twenty years served as a customs inspector in New York, where he died. Billy Budd, written in his last years, was published for the first time in 1924, on the crest of a Melville revival that began about 1920 and continues to the present day-a revival that has established him among the greatest American writers.