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Carregando... Moby Dick (1851)de Herman Melville
  
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Such beautiful, epic prose, I adore adore adore this vast tragic novel. I find myself missing the experience of reading it and being close to its pages and characters. I loved seeing Robert Eggers' 2019 film 'The Lighthouse' credit Melville in influencing its script — Moby-Dick is undoubtedly one of the most amazing engagements with language I've ever read!  booms | Jan 24, 2021 |  Imitation Leather. Condition: Fine. Size: 8vo  EboBooks | Jan 16, 2021 | Achab, kapitein op de walvisvaart, is een been kwijtgeraakt door toedoen van de witte walvis Moby Dick. Hij wil, koste wat het kost, wraak. En het kost wat: zijn schip en de hele bemanning, op één na, die het verhaal kan vertellen. Het boek laat de lezer kennismaken met de walvis, allerlei aspecten van de walvisvaart, de gevaren ervan en het nut van wat de walvissen opleveren. Blij dat er op die manier niet meer op walvissen wordt gejaagd, dat er überhaupt nauwelijks meer op die dieren wordt gejaagd. wannabook08 | Jan 13, 2021 | This is a novel about pure obsession. The language is extremely rich and evocative. But it is too long, and too rambling. I got bored frequently. The story itself at times seems but an excuse to digress about every conceivable topic surrounding whale hunting: a list of the earliest records of whales in mythology and classic literature; a naïve taxonomy of cetacea; the anatomy of the sperm whale down to the minutest detail, with entire (if also short) chapters dedicated to specific features; customs and legends about whalers around the globe; rigging, tools and jargon used in the trade… I didn't know the story was interspersed with so many digressions, and I didn't enjoy many of them. Another problem I had is that the language is quite difficult for me: American English of the mid-19th century, full of nautical terms. A paragraph from the Wikipedia article: “An incomplete inventory of the language of Moby-Dick by editors Bryant and Springer includes ‘nautical, biblical, Homeric, Shakespearean, Miltonic, cetological’ influences, and his style is ‘alliterative, fanciful, colloquial, archaic, and unceasingly allusive’: Melville tests and exhausts the possibilities of grammar, quotes from a range of well-known or obscure sources, and swings from calm prose to high rhetoric, technical exposition, seaman's slang, mystic speculation, or wild prophetic archaism.” No wonder the book has a Flesch reading score of 57.9 overall (meaning: “fairly difficult to read”), with passages scoring as low as −146.77 (meaning: �, null pointer, bad reference, off the charts). Finally, my personal circumstances didn't help: this is the first difficult book I read since my toddler was born and neither my wife nor I were off on parenting leave — meaning, I have read very little and progressed very slowly with this one… (  ) tripu.info | Jan 5, 2021 | One of my all-time favorites. I first read this in high school and loved it even then. The book is really two books in one, the fictional* story, and a history/lore of whaling, masterfully interwoven together. The history/lore portion does slow the fictional story down a bit but for me adds a richness to the fictional portion. The fictional story, to me, is a story on the dangers of obsession, and friendship/loyalty and duty. For those that are fans of Star Trek, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is a retelling of the story with Khan as Captain Ahab and Captain Kirk as The Whale. (See also"Star Trek:: First Contact" Picard as Ahab and the Borg as The Whale) *The story is based on an actual incident between a whale and a whaling ship, the Essex. in a book by Nathaniel Philbrick - "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" I did go back and reread Moby Dick after reading Philbrick's book. (  ) feralcatbob | Dec 22, 2020 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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