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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

ABRIDGED EDITION

Paper book: €18.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1851
Pages
368
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Adventure, Philosophy
Moods
Escape it all, Be enchanted, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

Ishmael, a young sailor, signs on at Nantucket aboard the Pequod, a whaler commanded by Captain Ahab. Ahab lost a leg to a white sperm whale, Moby Dick, and has only one idea left: to find it and kill it.

This novel made the white whale the symbol of every obsession, and its first line, “Call me Ishmael”, is one of the most famous in literature.

With the translation always in front of you, you can experience this great sea adventure in the language you are learning.

The plot

Koin emas yang dipaku di tiang kapal. Suatu petang, Kapten Ahab memaku sebuah koin emas di tiang kapal. Koin itu untuk pelaut pertama yang melihat Moby Dick, paus putih raksasa yang membuat Ahab kehilangan sebelah…

The world of the book

Perburuan paus. Sekitar tahun 1850, rumah-rumah sering diterangi minyak paus. Kapal-kapal Amerika berangkat memburu paus di semua samudra, selama tiga atau empat tahun.

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