Moby Dick Or The Whale - Melville, Herman

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Résumé :
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The is based on the life experiences of Herman Melville, that he had while whaling. The book is largely based on his sea-life incidents. The story is about Captain Ahab who sets out in search of Moby Dick, a white whale which injured him on his earlier voyage, leaving him handicapped. Today it is considered a great American novel about American romanticism, and is a classic in American Literature. D. H. Lawrence called it one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world and the greatest book of the sea ever written.

Biographie:
Herman Melville (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. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.