Name: La Historia del Town-Ho (in Spanish)
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Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9788496509108

portada La Historia del Town-Ho (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Publisher

Libros Del Zorro Rojo

Year

2005

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Weight

ISBN

8496509109

ISBN13

9788496509108

Edited in

España

Synopsis "La Historia del Town-Ho (in Spanish)"

El Town-ho, una nave ballenera de Nantucket, surca el océano Pacífico con la tripulación alarmada por una misteriosa avería que amenaza con hundirlo. Todo empeora cuando el primer oficial y un valeroso subalterno se enfrentan sangrientamente para defender su honor. Un desesperado motín parece ser, entonces, la única opción para resistir a la furia ciega y temeraria del capitán, quien ignora la cercanía de Moby Dick. La historia del Town-HoAutor : Melville, HermanPezzoni, Enrique (Traductor)Scafa

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (New York, August 1, 1819-New York, September 28, 1891)1 was an American writer, novelist, poet, and essayist from the American Renaissance period. Among his most famous novels are Typee (1846), based on his experiences in Polynesia, and the novel Moby Dick (1851),1 considered his masterpiece and a classic of world literature

Between 1853 and 1855, he published a series of stories in Putnam Magazine, most of which were collected in The Piazza Tales, including two of Melville's most important narratives: the story Bartleby, the Scrivener and the novella Benito Cereno. Also featured is the story The Encantadas, consisting of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands linked by a single narrator. In 1857, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, also known as The Confidence-Man, was the last prose fiction work he published. Seeking financial stability, he abandoned writing, accepting a position as a customs inspector

In his later years, in which he also had to endure the death of two of his brothers as well as the death of two of his sons, Clarence, from tuberculosis, and Malcolm from a possible suicide, as well as the death of another of his sons at thirty-five years old, Stanwix Melville, he dedicated himself to writing poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, from 1866, is a poetic reflection on the Civil War and Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a fictional epic poem, published in 1876. The novel Billy Budd, which he left unfinished and was posthumously published in London in 1924, is considered one of the most significant works of American literature.

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