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7 de may. de 2024 · Herman Melville ( born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Moby Dick is a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne . Moby Dick is generally regarded as Melville’s magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels.
- The action of Moby Dick takes place largely on Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, while sailing in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
- When Moby Dick was first published, the public was unimpressed. It sold fewer than 4,000 copies in total, including fewer than 600 in the United Ki...
- The whale Moby Dick has been interpreted as a metaphor for a great many things, from the Judeo-Christian God to atheism and everything in between....
- Moby Dick gained recognition as an important American novel in the 1920s, more than half a century after its publication. Its fame subsequently gre...
Herman Melville is often considered one of the key figures of the dark romanticism movement in American literature. In order to understand Melville's relationship to dark romanticism, it is important to consider the historical context in which he wrote.
7 de may. de 2024 · The name was also a reference to the ancestry Hall says he was told by his family, though he is not directly related to Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Moby is distantly related to David Melville, inventor of the first United States-patented gas light system.
2 de may. de 2024 · Reprints of all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840's until his death in 1891.
Hace 5 días · Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had "a defect in the region of the heart" and a "self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name", though he later admitted Emerson was "a great man".
26 de abr. de 2024 · Herman Melville ( 1819-1891 ) El 1 de agosto se cumplen 200 años del nacimiento del escritor, novelista, poeta y ensayista estadounidense. De regreso de un viaje a Europa que realizó cuando contaba con 30 años, escribió su obra maestra y un libro importante en la historia de la literatura universal: Moby Dick.
