Moby-Dick

　　No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick.  Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.  It is the greatest sea story ever told.  Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstoo... (展开全部) 　　No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick.  Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.  It is the greatest sea story ever told.  Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries.  Today, however, it is indisputably a classic.  As D.H. Lawrence wrote, Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."　　

　　HERMAN MELVILLE was born in New York City in 1819.When his father died,he was forced to leave school and find work.After passing through some minor clerical jobs,the eighteen-year-old young man shipped out to sea,first on a short cargo trip,then,at twenty-one,on a three-year South Sea whalin venture.From the experiences accumulated on this voyage would come the material for his early books,Typee(1846)andOmoo(1847),as wellas for such masterpieces ans Moby-Dick,Pierre,The Piazza Tales,and Billy Budd,Sailor.

近十年来中国《白鲸》研究综述	来自鼋鸣鳖至/来去无踪@我叫刘亚玲		2009-05-05
麦尔维尔和他的《白鲸》》(Moby Dick)	来自鼋鸣鳖至/来去无踪@我叫刘亚玲		2009-05-05