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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

釘在桅杆上的金幣。一天傍晚,亞哈船長把一枚金幣釘在桅杆上:誰第一個看見莫比·迪克,金幣就歸誰。正是這頭巨大的白鯨讓亞哈失去了一條腿。船員們齊聲歡呼。只有大副斯塔巴克敢於回應。

The world of the book

捕鯨的年代。1850年前後,人們常用鯨油照明。美國船隻遠航各大洋捕鯨,一去就是三、四年。

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