Автор:Herman Melville Год: 1992 Издание:Wordsworth Editions Limited, Wordsworth Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 9781853260087 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...