Moby-Dick, English edition
or, The Whale
(Sprache: Englisch)
Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an...
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an...
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Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadOver a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Never losing its cultural prescence, Melville's nautical epic has inspired many films over the years, including the film adaptation of Nathanael Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Wishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, and directed by Ron Howard. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. This Penguin Classics edition, featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and notes by Tom Quirk, prints the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text, approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA.
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme down-town is the Battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see? are wedded for ever.
But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps
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his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies what is the one charm wanting? Water there is not a drop of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus , who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag un
Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag un
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Moby-Dick, English edition “
IntroductionxiSuggestions for Further ReadingxxixA Note on the TextxxxiMoby-DickEtymologyxxxviiExtractsxxxixLoomings3(6)The Carpet Bag9(4)The Spouter-Inn13(15)The Counterpane28(5)Breakfast33(3)The Street36(3)The Chapel39(4)The Pulpit43(3)The Sermon46(9)A Bosom Friend55(4)Nightgown59(2)Biographical61(3)Wheelbarrow64(5)Nantucket69(3)Chowder72(4)The Ship76(14)The Ramadan90(6)His Mark96(4)The Prophet100(4)All Astir104(3)Going Aboard107(4)Merry Christmas111(5)The Lee Shore116(2)The Advocate118(5)Postscript123(1)Knights and Squires124(4)Knights and Squires128(5)Ahab133(4)Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb137(4)The Pipe141(1)Queen Mab142(3)Cetology145(13)The Specksynder158(3)The Cabin Table161(6)The Mast-Head167(7)The Quarter-Deck Ahab and all174(8)Sunset182(2)Dusk184(2)First Night-Watch186(1)Forecastle---Midnight187(7)Moby Dick194(10)The Whiteness of the Whale204(9)Hark!213(2)The Chart215(6)The Affidavit221(9)Surmises230(3)The Mat-Maker233(3)The First Lowering236(11)The Hyena247(3)Ahab's Boat and Crew---Fedallah250(3)The Spirit-Spout253(4)The Pequod meets the Albatross257(3)The Gam260(5)The Town Ho's Story265(20)Monstrous Pictures of Whales285(5)Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales290(4)Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, & c.294(3)Brit297(3)Squid300(3)The Line303(4)Stubb kills a Whale307(6)The Dart313(2)The Crotch315(2)Stubb's Supper317(8)The Whale as a Dish325(3)The Shark Massacre328(2)Cutting In330(2)The Blanket332(4)The Funeral336(2)The Sphynx338(3)The Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her Story341(7)The Monkey-rope348(5)Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale353(6)The Sperm Whale's Head359(5)The Right Whale's Head364(4)The Battering-Ram368(3)The Great Heidelburgh Tun371(2)Cistern and Buckets373(5)The Prairie378(3)The Nut381(3)The Pequod meets the Virgin384(11)The Honor and Glory of Whaling395(4)Jonah Historically Regarded399(3)Pitchpoling402(3)The Fountain405(5)The Tail410(5)The Grand Armada415(13)Schools & Schoolmasters428(4)Fast Fish and Loose Fish432(4)Heads or Tails436(4)The Pequod
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meets the Rose Bud440(7)Ambergris447(3)The Castaway450(5)A Squeeze of the Hand455(4)The Cassock459(2)The Try-Works461(5)The Lamp466(1)Stowing Down & Clearing Up467(3)The Doubloon470(6)The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London476(7)The Decanter483(1)A Bower in the Arsacides483(10)Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton493(3)The Fossil Whale496(4)Does the Whale Diminish?500(5)Ahab's Leg505(3)The Carpenter508(3)The Deck Ahab and the Carpenter511(5)The Cabin Ahab and Starbuck516(3)Queequeg in his Coffin519(6)The Pacific525(2)The Blacksmith527(3)The Forge530(4)The Gilder534(2)The Pequod meets the Bachelor536(3)The Dying Whale539(2)The Whale-Watch541(2)The Quadrant543(3)The Candles546(7)The Deck553(1)Midnight, on the Forecastle554(2)Midnight, Aloft556(1)The Musket557(4)The Needle561(4)The Log and Line565(4)The Life-Buoy569(4)Ahab and the Carpenter573(3)The Pequod meets the Rachel576(4)The Cabin Ahab and Pip580(2)The Hat582(5)The Pequod meets the Delight587(2)The Symphony589(5)The Chase First Day594(10)The Chase Second Day604(9)The Chase Third Day613(12)Epilogue625(4)List of Textual Emendations629(6)Explanatory Notes635(16)Glossary of Nautical Terms651(4)Maps and Illustrations655
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Autoren-Porträt von Herman Melville
Herman Melville; Introduction by Andrew Delbanco; Explanatory Commentary by Tom Quirk
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Herman Melville
- 2002, Repr., LI, 720 Seiten, 6 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 19,5 x 12,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0142437247
- ISBN-13: 9780142437247
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2003
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Englisch
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