HERMAN MELVILLE

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 agains...

This work tells the story of an extremely cunning and fearsome whale which becomes the focus of fear and superstition among its pursuers. The one-legged Captain Ahab of the whaler Pequod takes the reader deeper and deeper into the realm of obsessive revenge and monomania.

Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab and his crew. They live and work on a ship that hunts for whales. Captain Ahab wants to find a giant, white whale that ate his leg the last time they met. He is obsessed and his crew are terrified of the whale. During the book, the Captain Ahab's ship meets other ships and they all talk about the white w...

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Una noche de diciembre, mientras el dueño de la casa lee una vieja novela de fantasmas, queda aterrado por un crujido procedente de una mesa de tres patas que pocos días antes la familia había rescatado del desván de la casa. La familia enseguida se convence de la presencia de fantasmas. Nadie quiere saber el origen del ruido, pero suponen que ...