书名：Moby Dick白鲸
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1230
作者：Herman Melville
出版社名称：Harper Collins Publisher
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007925568
商品尺寸：11.2 x 3.7 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：618

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，后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。
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1.Moby Dick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；
2.史诗般文学巨著，世界文坛公认的伟大杰作，被誉为“时代的镜子”和“美国想象力颇为辉煌的表达”；
3.美国作家海明威和法国作家、诺贝尔文学奖获得者加缪都十分推崇此书；
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Moby Dickis a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. The novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author’s death in 1891, but during the 20th century, its reputation as a Great American Novel was established. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it 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”. “Call me Ishmael” is among world literature’s most famous opening sentences.
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“There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!”
Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, Captain Ahab’sfanatical, lifelong obsession with tracking down the great white whale Moby Dick is told by Ishmael, one of the ship’s crew. Sacrificing the safety of his men, the crazed Ahab single-mindedly pursues his goal with a devastating outcome. At it’s very core, Moby Dick is an adventure novel, but Melville unravels the issues surrounding the indoctrinated belief systems of the time, and it also serves as a cautionary tale and a moral fable.
Considered as one of the most important American novels of its time, Ishmael's narrative of a man against mammal is symbolic, and compelling to the very end.


Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known forTypee(1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novelMoby Dick(1851).

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! Of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster— tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?