The indisputable masterpiece of American literature in its first complete Greek translation. (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)
To write a great book, you must choose a great theme. [...] What, once found, clarifies everything else' (H. Melville)
'Call me Ishmael. A few years ago - it doesn't matter exactly how many - having little or no money in my pocket and nothing particular to interest me on land, I thought I would travel a bit at sea 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 grimacing; when in my soul it is a wet November, drizzling; when I find myself stopping involuntarily in front of coffin warehouses and becoming the tail of every funeral I meet; and especially when my hypochondria dominates me so much that a strong moral imperative is needed to prevent me from deliberately going out in the street and systematically hurling down the hats of the world - then I consider that the time has come to embark, as soon as I can. It is my own substitute for the pistol and the bullet. With a philosophical gesture of great grandeur, Cato threw himself on his sword; I quietly take the ship. There is nothing surprising about this. If they knew it, it would suffice; almost all men, in their own way, sooner or later, would harbor more or less the same feelings as I do towards the ocean. [...]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Publisher
- Gutenberg
- Original Title
- Moby Dick or The Whale
- Publishers
- Gutenberg
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Subtitle
- Or the whale
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 926
- Release Date
- 3/1992
- Publication Date
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 12x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789600103236
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