Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

Teetle page, first American edeetion o Moby-Dick
Author	Herman Melville
Kintra	Unitit States
Leid	Inglis
Genre	nautical fiction, adventure fiction
Publisher	Richard Bentley (Britain) Harper & Brothers (U.S.)
Publication date	18 October 1851, 14 November 1851
ISBN-13	813.3

Moby-Dick is a novelle bi American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period o the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story o the obsessive quest o Ahab, caiptain o the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whaul which on the previous whaulin voyage destroyed his ship an severed his leg at the knee. The novelle wis a commercial failur an oot o prent at the time o the author's daith in 1891, but during the 20t century, its reputation as a Great American Novelle wis established. William Faulkner confessed he wished he haed written it himsel, an D. H. Lawrence cried it "ane o the strangest an maist wonderfu beuks in the warld", an "the greatest beuk o the sea ever written". "Call me Ishmael" is amang warld leeteratur's maist famous openin sentences.

References

Soorces

• Lawrence, D.H. (1923). Studies in Classic American Literature. Reprentit Lunnon: Penguin Beuks. ISBN 9780140183771
• Buell, Lawrence. (2014).The Dream of the Great American Novel. Cambridge, Massachusetts an Lunnon: The Belknap Press o Harvard Varsity Press. ISBN 9780674051157
• Faulkner, William. (1927). "[I Wish I Had Written That.]" Oreeginally in the Chicago Tribune, 16 Julie 1927. Repentit in Parker & Hayford (2001), 640.