Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its way into the popular imagination while establishing itself as one of the pioneering works of modern science fiction.
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Książka wydana w języku angielskim. Bibliogr. s. XXI-XXIII.
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Moby-Dick is the story of Captain Ahab`s quest to avenge the whale that `reaped` his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.
But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab`s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.
Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel`s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his "mighty theme" - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world`s great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
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Na stronie 4 okładki: Complete and unabridged. Książka wydana w języku angielskim. Oznaczenia odpowiedzialności: Herman Melville ; introduction by David Herd.
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