Herman Melville — Author (13)
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale [Book] Goodreads
author: Herman Melville 2011 - 3
Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville’s masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891.

Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee.
Moby Dick [Book] Crititeca reviews.pilvit.net Goodreads
author: Herman Melville publishing house: Amazon 2017 - 8
Ignoring prophecies of doom, the seafarer Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling expedition that is an obsession for the ship’s captain, Ahab. Once maimed by the White Whale, Moby Dick, Ahab has set out on a voyage of revenge. With godlike ferocity, he surges into dangerous waters — immune to the madness of his vision, refusing to be bested by the forces of nature.

An exhilarating whaling yarn, an apocalyptic theodicy, a tragic confessional, and a profound allegory, Moby Dick encompasses all that it means to be human — from the physical and metaphysical to the spiritual and emotional. Full of strange wisdom and wild digressive energy, it’s a singular literary performance universally regarded as one of the great American novels.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.
白鲸 [Book] NeoDB Douban
author: Herman Melville translator: 曹庸 publishing house: 上海译文出版社 1990 - 9
《白鲸》叙述的是一艘捕鲸船在亚哈船长的指挥下,与海上恶魔——白鲸莫比·迪克作殊死搏斗的故事,塑造了一群团结协作、英勇无畏、敢于牺牲的水手形象。情节惊险、曲折、扣人心弦。《白鲸》是世界海洋文学的经典之作,它决定了作者麦尔维尔在美国文坛上的崇高地位。
Moby-Dick [Book] NeoDB Goodreads Douban
author: Herman Melville publishing house: Everyman's Library 1991 - 11
"As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow", was how D.H. Lawrence characterized Moby-Dick. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the ultimate achievement of that stunning period in American letters.
白鲸 [Book] NeoDB Douban
author: Herman Melville translator: 罗山川 publishing house: 后浪丨江苏凤凰文艺出版社 2021 - 6
◎神秘、震撼、伟大
美国文学巅峰之作
备受推崇的罗山川译本时隔十年精装重版
内含雷蒙德•毕晓普三十幅传世木刻插图
◎编辑推荐
赫尔曼·麦尔维尔,被誉为美国的“莎士比亚”,生前并未引起应有的重视,过世后三十年才声名鹊起,是一位值得被多次“重新发现”的作家。
《白鲸》,最伟大的美国小说,最伟大写海的书,毛姆眼中的世界十大经典小说之一,福克纳最想写的书,也是深刻影响奥巴马、乔布斯、鲍勃·迪伦等人的书。
本次再版全部收录艺术家雷蒙德·毕晓普的三十幅木刻插图,环衬烫银。
备受读者称赞的罗山川译本。一生饱经坎坷的翻译学教授,花甲之年怀着满腔的郁勃之气译出。
◎内容简介
小说叙事者以实玛利厌倦陆地的生活,登上裴廓德号捕鲸船当水手。船长亚哈在之前的一次航程中被白鲸咬去半截腿,他此次出航矢志要找到白鲸报仇雪恨。
◎媒体推荐
它(《白鲸》)就是文学界的珠穆朗玛峰:巍峨且难以逾越,雪白的顶峰像大白鲸的尾部一样难以捉摸。 ——《卫报》
◎名人推荐
假如要从美国文学史中挑选一部最伟大、最出色的长篇小说,我的答案是麦尔维尔的《白鲸》。 ——格非
这里有一种惊悸、一种神秘、一种征兆、一种激情,它显示出人生的凶险、命运的不可抗拒以及邪恶的无处不在,而所有这一切都使你凝神屏息、瞠目结舌。 ——毛姆
T. E.劳伦斯将《白鲸》与《群魔》或《战争与和平》并列。……在这些饱含痛苦的书中,人被淹没了,但每一页上都有生命的升华,书中有充满取之不尽的力量和怜悯。我们在其中发现了反抗和接受,不可征服和无尽的爱,对美的激情,最高级的语言——总之,天才。 ——加缪
这是一部海的史诗,没有第二个人写得出。 ——D.H.劳伦斯
美国文学史上最伟大的小说。 ——伊丽莎白·哈德威克
1851年冬,麦尔维尔出版了《白鲸》,一本确立他的光荣地位的小说。 ——博尔赫斯
《白鲸》是一部无与伦比的捕鲸故事,也几乎是一部鲸类学的百科全书。作为一部震撼人心的悲剧,《白鲸》又足可与莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》和《李尔王》媲美。
——巫宁坤
译者唯一的译著,一生寂寞学养的爆发。
——张定浩
白鲸 [Book] NeoDB Douban
Moby Dick
author: Herman Melville / [美] 洛克威尔·肯特 translator: 曹庸 publishing house: 上海译文出版社 2021 - 1
是海洋小说更是海洋史诗,是美国想象力的辉煌表达 收入全部洛克威尔·肯特经典插图 纪念《白鲸》出版一百七十周年,译文社版《白鲸》震撼归来
赫尔曼·麦尔维尔(1819-1891),美国文学史上最杰出的浪漫主义小说家之一,《白鲸》是他的代表作。捕鲸船“裴廊德”号船长亚哈,在一次捕鲸过程中,被凶残聪明的白鲸莫比-迪克咬掉了一条腿,因此他满怀复仇之念,一心想追捕这条白鲸,竟至失去理性,变成一个独断独行的偏热症狂。他的船几乎兜遍了全世界经历辗转,终于与莫比-迪克遭遇。经过三天追踪,他用鱼叉击中白鲸,但船被白鲸撞破,亚哈被鱼叉上的绳子缠住,带人海中。全船人落海,只有水手以实玛利(《圣经》中人名,意为被遗弃的人)一人得救,来向人们讲述这个故事。作者赋予莫比-迪克的白色象征天真无邪和恐怖,以白鲸象征善和恶的混合,这也是人世的基本状况。这部小说以充实的思想内容、史诗船的规模和成熟、深思性质的文笔,成为传世佳作。
洛克威尔·肯特(Rockwell Kent,1882—1971)是美国著名插画家,为许多文学作品配过插图,比如《十日谈》《坎特伯雷故事集》等,《白鲸》是其中非常经典的一种,收录插图一百多幅,初版于1930年,为几代爱书人所追捧。
Moby Dick [Book] Goodreads
Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
author: Herman Melville translator: Irene Hirsch / Alexandre Barbosa de Souza publishing house: Editora 34 2019 - 8 other title: A baleia
Lançado em 1851, Moby Dick, de Herman Melville (1819-1891), se tornou um dos livros de aventura mais emblemáticos da literatura universal. A história do capitão Ahab, em busca de vingança contra o terrível cachalote que amputara sua perna, entrou definitivamente para a cultura popular, inspirando criações nas artes plásticas, no teatro, no cinema e na música. Mas uma leitura atenta da obra-prima de Melville pode revelar as camadas mais profundas do texto — as alusões bíblicas, as críticas ao nascente imperialismo norte-americano, as referências à obra de Shakespeare, entre muitos outros temas —, que deram ao autor o posto de maior prosador norte-americano do século XIX. Além de trazer ensaios de Evert Duyckinck, D. H. Lawrence e F. O. Matthiessen sobre Moby Dick, que delineiam a recepção crítica do livro, esta nova edição apresenta um prefácio de Albert Camus, inédito em nosso país, e um ensaio de Bruno Gambarotto, um dos maiores especialistas brasileiros na obra de Melville.
Moby Dick [Book] NeoDB Douban
author: Herman Melville publishing house: Penguin Classics 2007 - 7
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick 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 encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
Moby-Dick [Book] NeoDB Douban Skybridge Goodreads
author: Herman Melville publishing house: Penguin 2003 - 2 other title: The Whale / Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick 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 encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.
Moby Dick [Book] Goodreads
Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
author: Herman Melville translator: Irene Hirsch / Alexandre Barbosa de Souza publishing house: Cosac & Naify 2008 - 4 other title: A Baleia
Versão definitiva da obra-prima Moby Dick, ou A Baleia, considerado um dos maiores romances norte-americanos. O livro traz o relato de um marinheiro letrado, Ishmael, sobre a última viagem de um navio baleeiro de Nantucket, o Pequod, que parte da costa leste dos Estados Unidos - com sua tripulação multiétnica - rumo ao Pacífico Sul, onde encontra o imenso cachalote branco que, no passado, arrancara a perna do vingativo capitão Ahab. Ao longo de 135 capítulos, Herman Melville (1819-1891) explora com brilhantismo e ironia os mais variados gêneros literários: da narrativa de viagens ao teatro shakespeareano, do sermão à poesia popular, passando pela descrição científica e a meditação filosófica. A nova tradução se vale da longa experiência acadêmica da tradutora Irene Hirsch com a obra de Melville e de um minucioso trabalho de pesquisa de vocabulário náutico por parte do tradutor Alexandre Barbosa de Souza. O volume inclui ainda fortuna crítica com três textos fundamentais para a compreensão da obra: uma resenha de Evert Duyckinck, publicada em 1851; o clássico ensaio de D. H. Lawrence, incluído em Studies in Classic American Literature, de 1923, e um trecho do célebre estudo de F. O. Mathiessen, American Renaissance, de 1941. Além disso, a edição traz apêndice com Glossário Náutico Ilustrado e bibliografia.
白鲸记 [Book] NeoDB Douban
author: Herman Melville translator: 李先规 publishing house: 中国书籍出版社 2005 - 1
梅尔维尔(1819-1891)是美国著名作家,他十八岁开始在捕鲸船、商船上与美国海军中当水手。这些经历,不但磨炼了他的意志,也使他获得了比陆地工作更丰富的生活知识,为其日后的文学创作打下了厚实的基础。《白鲸记》是他的代表作之一。全书讲述了捕鲸船长亚哈和南太洋上一条名叫莫比·迪克的白鲸之间的故事。被白鲸咬掉了一条腿的亚哈船长心中燃烧着复仇的怒火,他指挥着航船行遍世界大洋,只为追踪这条令人闻之色变的巨鲸,甚至不惜以命相搏……整个故事以惟一得以逃生的水手伊希梅尔自叙的方式展开,不仅详述了捕鲸人在大海中追击白鲸的经历,而且对生命的现象、人生的光明和阴暗、大自然的神秘莫测、生与死的哲学等亦有探讨。
白鯨記/Moby Dick [Book] Douban
Moby Dick
author: Herman Melville translator: 葉晉庸 publishing house: 志文出版社 1984
全書有442頁,共分成84章,因為篇幅過度冗長,曾一度認為不適合青少年讀者閱讀,在英國多次被退稿,1851年出版,讀者反應十分冷淡,第一年只賣出5本,作者梅爾維爾則一生默默無聞;一直到《白鯨記》出版了七十年(1920年)後,梅爾維爾在美國文學的地位才獲得重新評價,福克納說過:「看完《白鯨記》,第一個想法是希望這本書是我寫的。」至今日,《白鯨記》已被視為美國文學史上最偉大的小說之一。
白鯨記故事結構簡單,是一部以捕鯨生涯為題材的小說,一位名叫亞哈(Ahab)的「裴龐德號」(Pequod)捕鯨船船長帶領全體船員,追捕一條叫做「莫比·迪克」的大白鯨的歷險過程。亞哈是一名意志堅定的船長,聰明、自大,他在海上四十年,每天吃醃菜過日子,他說:「不要對我不尊敬,就算是太陽得罪我,我也會出手痛擊。」「佩科特號」途中收留了來自紐約的以實瑪利(Ishmael)[1]和科科伏柯島(南太平洋島上食人族)的王子魁魁格(Queequeg),以實瑪利厭煩了陸上枯燥乏味的生活,於是決定到海上冒險,在旅店中,認識了標槍手魁魁格,兩人一見如故,以實瑪利說:「寧願與一個清醒的食人族土著同床,也不要與一個酗酒的基督徒交往。」,一起登上捕鯨船,整個故事幾乎是用以實瑪利為第一人稱來描述,本書第一章第一句是:「叫我以實瑪利(Call me Ishmael)。」。
裴龐德號從美國東岸楠塔基特(Nantucket)出發,從南大西洋經非洲南端,進入印度洋、太平洋,途中捕殺了幾頭鯨魚,該船先後與「信天翁號」、「處女號」、「玫瑰蕊號」、「拉吉號」等好幾艘船相遇,拉吉號的船長布默勸說亞哈不要對莫比·迪克進行報復,拉吉號船剛剛和莫比·迪克交過手,被莫比·迪克撞沉了捕鯨小艇,船長加迪納的兒子不知去向。儘管「裴龐德號」在海上大有收穫,但亞哈船長滿腦子裡都是報仇,船長因被大白鯨咬斷左腿,一意要追殺大白鯨,他向水手們承諾,誰最先發現那隻白鯨,就獎勵一枚金幣。他們和白鯨三度遭遇,一次船上的儲存鯨油的桶破裂,魁魁格拚命補救,結果得了重病,木匠做了一個黑色棺材,魁魁格卻奇蹟似的生還。經過三場血戰,最後船長奮身刺殺白鯨,被魚叉上的繩子纏住,不幸落海身亡,捕鯨船被撞翻,而「莫比·迪克」也不知去向;只有船員以實瑪利生還,他在海裡爬上了魁魁格生前的預備棺材,被「拉吉號」救起。他後來以回憶方式敘述這段驚心動魄的歷險。這部小說充滿隱喻象徵與探求未知的勇氣,曾被好萊塢電影不斷地改編拍攝。故事中有二分之一的篇幅是描寫捕鯨業的習俗,與鯨魚有關的文學、藝術,鯨魚的生理構造,例如鯨魚最大的弱點是無法止血,鯨魚的噴水有灼熱之虞等,以及水手如何屠宰鯨類獲取鯨油、龍涎香,藍鯨在《白鯨記》中被稱為硫磺底(Sulphur-bottom),因為矽藻附著在藍鯨的皮膚上,使得它們的下側呈現橘棕色或淡黃色。《白鯨記》可以算是一部捕鯨的百科全書。
白鲸 [Book] Douban Melon Log NeoDB
Moby Dick
author: Herman Melville translator: 曹庸 publishing house: 上海译文出版社 2007 - 7
赫尔曼·麦尔维尔(1819-1891),美国文学史上最杰出的浪漫主义小说家之一,《白鲸》是他的代表作。
捕鲸船“裴廊德”号船长亚哈,在一次捕鲸过程中,被凶残聪明的白鲸莫比-迪克咬掉了一条腿,因此他满怀复仇之念,一心想追捕这条白鲸,竟至失去理性,变成一个独断独行的偏热症狂。他的船几乎兜遍了全世界经历辗转,终于与莫比-迪克遭遇。经过三天追踪,他用鱼叉击中白鲸,但船被白鲸撞破,亚哈被鱼叉上的绳子缠住,带人海中。全船人落海,只有水手以实玛利(《圣经》中人名,意为被遗弃的人)一人得救,来向人们讲述这个故事。作者赋予莫比-迪克的白色象征天真无邪和恐怖,以白鲸象征善和恶的混合,这也是人世的基本状况。这部小说以充实的思想内容、史诗船的规模和成熟、深思性质的文笔,成为传世佳作。