DescriptionLa lucha de un hombre obstinado contra una ballena Moby Dick es considerado por la critica como una de las novelas mas importantes de la literatura universal ya que aunque aparentemente es la simple historia de un marinero obsesionado por cazar una elusiva ballena, es un inmenso poema lirico que tiene como fondo el ansia de triunfo de todo ser humano. La ballena es el simbolo de ese ideal que se lucha por alcanzar y por esa combinacion de lo simbolico con el argumento apasionante de la persecucion de la ballena, esta obra del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville ha apasionado a los lectores desde su publicacion. Es una obra emocionante y apasionante que no tiene paralelo literario. This masterpiece has attracted readers since its publication. It is an exciting and fascinating work that does not have any literary parallel, and is considered among the greatest novels in world literature.
DescriptionA splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage. The challenge of a man against the wonders of nature's ocean, of a man against his own weakness and strengths, and of a man against a demon, or perhaps his God, as he searches for his nemesis, the great white whale. This exciting full-cast presentation is like nothing you've ever heard before!
DescriptionCall me Ishmael. Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.
DescriptionFirst published in 1851, this realistic account of a whaling voyage, drawing on Melville's own experience as a merchant seaman, contains within a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate. It is the fruit of Melville's three year residence…
DescriptionWe always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Chodron's previous works provided the inspiration and guidan…
