HERMAN MELVILLE

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Maramma We were now voyaging straight for Maramma; where lived and reigned, in mystery, the High Pontiff of the adjoining isles: prince, priest, and god, in his own proper person: great lord paramount over many kings in Mardi; his hands full of scepters and crosiers. Soon, rounding a lofty and insulated shore, the great central peak of the islan...

***Este libro incluye índice interactivo*** Herman Melville (1819-1891) nació en Nueva York, el 1 de agosto de 1819. Es uno de los más importantes escritores de la literatura estadounidense. Trabajo primeramente embarcado, luego fue profesor, y viajó en 1841, durante un año y medio por los mares del sur en un barco ballenero, hasta que desemba...

Famous Melville Stories, one, a decrepit ship's captain who lost this crew; the other, considered...

Moby-Dick is at once a thrilling adventure tale, a timeless allegory, and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At its heart is the powerful, unknowable sea - and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth which whale that crippled him. narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ah...