Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

37,06 €
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Editorial:
Wilder Publications
Año de edición:
2018
Materia
Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9781515427629
Páginas:
10
Encuadernación:
Tela

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Call me Ishmael, Moby-Dick begins, in one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western literature. The name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts - in the opening paragraph of Moby-Dick, Ishmael tells the reader that he has turned to the sea out of a feeling of alienation from human society. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out a specific whale-Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale

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