Titre :	Moby Dick
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Herman Melville, Auteur
Editeur :	London [England] : Penguin Books
Année de publication :	1994
Collection :	Penguin popular classics num. 20
Importance :	536 p.
Présentation :	couv. ill. en coul.
Format :	18 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-14-062062-7
Note générale :	9780140620627/9789953105260/9780142437247.
Langues :	Anglais
Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature
Résumé :	'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of 'some unknown but still reasoning thing'. Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards 'the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale'.

Moby Dick [texte imprimé] / Herman Melville, Auteur . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 1994 . - 536 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. - (Penguin popular classics; 20) .
ISBN : 978-0-14-062062-7
9780140620627/9789953105260/9780142437247.
Langues : Anglais

Catégories :

LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature

Résumé :

'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of 'some unknown but still reasoning thing'. Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards 'the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale'.