内容简介
IntroductionbyElizabethHardwickIllustrationsbyRockwellKentFirstpublishedin1851,HermanMelville’smasterpieceis,inElizabethHardwick’swords,“thegreatestnovelinAmericanliterature.”ThesagaofCaptainAhabandhismonomaniacalpursuitofthewhitewhaleremainsapeerlessadventurestorybutonefullofmythicgrandeur,poeticmajesty,andsymbolicpower.Filteredthroughtheconsciousnessofthenovel’snarrator,Ishmael,Moby-Dickdrawsusintoauniversefulloffascinatingcharactersandstories,fromthenoblecannibalQueequegtothenaturalhistoryofwhales,whilereachingexistentialdepthsthatexcitedebateandcontemplationtothisday.,
作者简介
ElizabethHardwick(1916–2007)istheauthorofmanybooksandessays,includingHermanMelville(PenguinLives),AmericanFictions,andSeductionandBetrayal:WomenandLiterature.,,,,