Moby-Dick (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Or, the Whale

Melville, Herman 저자(글)

Penguin Books · 2009년 10월 01일

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Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece M oby-Dick. Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.
Tony Millionaire is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip Maakies and the Sock Monkey series of comic and picture books.

Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Never losing its cultural presence, Melville's nautical epic has inspired many films over the years, including the film adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, and directed by Ron Howard. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick and cover art by Tony Millionaire. This edition prints the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text, approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

작가정보

저자(글) Melville, Herman

1819년, 미국 뉴욕에서 부유한 무역상 집안의 8형제 중 셋째로 태어나 부족함 없는 유년 시절을 보내지만 13세 때 아버지가 거의 파산상태에 이른 후 죽자 농장 일꾼, 가게 점원, 학교 교사 등을 전전하며 가족의 생계를 돕는다. 20세에 상선의 선원이 되어 영국의 리버풀까지 항해했고, 22세에 다시 포경선의 선원으로 남태평양에 나갔으며, 1844년에 군함의 수병이 되어 귀국하였다. 이때의 경험을 살려 쓴 작품으로, 포경선에서 탈주하여 남태평양의 마르키즈제도의 식인종 마을에 살았던 기구한 경험을 그린 '타이피'(1846), 남태평양의 평안한 방랑생활을 엮은 '오무'(1847), 가공의 남양 모험담 '마디'(1849), 리버풀을 왕복하는 상선생활을 그린 '레드번'(1849), 군함생활을 그린 '하얀 재킷'(1850) 등이 있다. 근대적 합리성을 거부하는 비판적 사고, 풍부한 상징성을 작품에 담았던 그는 다음 세기에 와서야 단순한 해양모험담 작가가 아닌 친구 내서니얼 호손과 더불어 인간과 인생에 비극적 통찰을 한 상징주의 철학적 작가로 평가받게 되었다. 그 밖의 작품으로 마지막 장편 '사기꾼'(1857), 유작이 된 미완성 중편 '빌리 버드'(1924) 등이 있다.

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece M oby-Dick. Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.
Tony Millionaire is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip Maakies and the Sock Monkey series of comic and picture books.

기본정보

ISBN	9780143105954 ( 0143105957 )
발행(출시)일자	2009년 10월 01일
쪽수	672쪽
크기	138 * 218 * 44 mm / 689 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어

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