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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

Een gouden munt aan de mast. Op een avond spijkert kapitein Ahab een gouden munt aan de mast. Die is voor de eerste zeeman die Moby Dick ziet, de reusachtige witte walvis die Ahab een been heeft gekost. De bemanning…

The world of the book

De walvisvaart. Rond 1850 brandt in veel lampen walvisolie. Amerikaanse schepen trekken over alle oceanen op walvisjacht, voor drie of vier jaar.

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