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Μόμπι-ντικ, Or the Whale

Author: Herman Melville

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....

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...

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  • Release 3/1992
  • Pages Pages 926
  • Cover Cover Soft
  • Translation Translation Athanasios K. Christodoulou
  • Publisher Publisher Gutenberg
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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. [...]

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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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