Celebrated Translations -- Moby Dick (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: (American) Melville
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Moby-Dick is the masterpiece of American Romanticist writer Melville, one of the greatest novels in the history of world literature. It is hailed as the "encyclopedia of whaling" due to its depiction of sea voyages and the complex life of whaling. Cambridge History of Literature calls it one of the greatest oceanic legends in the history of world literature. In terms of literary value, it is also known as America's Hamlet. Alongside Faulkner's The Bear and Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Moby-Dick is celebrated as one of the three great animal epics in American literary history. In 1985, Moby-Dick was selected by Life magazine as one of the 20 greatest books of all time. The renowned American Romanticist writer Hawthorne once highly praised Moby-Dick as "a truly great work." The American writer Hemingway included it in the list of books recommended to young writers for "improving artistic skills." The French writer and Nobel Prize laureate Camus also held the book in very high regard. Many critics consider Moby-Dick to be "the most magnificent expression of American imagination," and the book is also regarded as "part drama, part adventure story, part philosophical exploration, part scientific research, and part epic."