Moby Dick / Spanish Edition Paperback - 2017

Name: Moby Dick / Spanish Edition (Penguin Cl
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Author: Melville, Herman
ISBN: 9788491050209

by Herman Melville

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About this book

Melville's classic was first published in England as three volumes titled The Whale in October 1851. Slow sales of Melville's previously books convinced Publisher L. Richard Bentley to reduce the printing to only 500 copies, and of that, only 300 sold in the first 4 months. The remaining unbound sheets were bound in a cheaper casing in 1852, and in 1853 there were still enough remaining sheets to again bind into an even cheaper edition.

Melville changed the title to Moby Dick a month later, November 1851, when the American Version was published in one volume by Harper & Brothers in NY. Of the 2,951 copies printed, 125 were review copies. About 1,500 sold in 11 days, but then sales slowed to less than 300 the next year. After two years copies of the first edition were still available, and almost 300 were destroyed in the 1853 fire of Harper's warehouse. Most of the first editions have orange end-papers, although there are 2 known volumes with rare white-endpapers.

Because of Nineteenth-century printing practices, and the time-lapse between when the first-editions were published and Melville became collectible, oxidized paper, bumped and chipped spines, and brittle wrappers are all common for even the most expensive and collectible of these books, which can sell from $35,000 to $100,000. Also, expect heavy wear and maybe even minor repair. Another collectible edition is the 1930 first edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent, a three-volume set published by the Lakeside Press with acetate dust jackets in an aluminum slipcase. These range in value from $9,000 to $11,000.

A total of 3,215 copies of Moby-Dick were sold during Melville's life (he died in 1891). Today, Moby-Dick is considered one of the greatest American novels. -

From the publisher

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read. A travs de este clsico, Melville logra convertir la historia de la caza de un cachalote en toda una metfora sobre la condicin humana y sus conflictos. Moby Dick, la novela que William Faulkner hubiera querido escribir, va siempre acompaada del reconocimiento y el elogio que merece toda construccin narrativa impecable. La lucha del capitn Ahab, su terrible obsesin y la mtica persecucin de la enorme ballena ha traspasado fronteras, consiguiendo as la indiscutible categora de obra maestra de la literatura universal. Esta edicin cuenta con la introduccin del especialista y director del Departamento de Estudios Americanos, Andrew Delbanco, autor de Melville (2005), la biografa de referencia del autor de Moby Dick. Asimismo, incorpora una serie de ilustraciones tales como el mapa de la travesa, un plano del ballenero Pequod y otras curiosidades que enriquecen la experiencia de la lectura y proyectan la imaginacin del lector. �Pero t, oh ballena, nadas con esa calma hechicera ante quien te ve por primera vez, despus de haber engaado y destruido a tantos hombres... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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.

First Edition Identification

Melville's classic was first published by L. Richard Bentley in England in 1851 as a three-volume set entitled The Whale. Only 500 copies were printed.

The US version, published a month later in November 1851 by Harper & Brothers, titled Moby Dick had 2,951 in the first printing. The U.S. version contained substantial textual differences even aside from the prominent change of title, including 35 passages that were wholly deleted from the English version.

Details

Title Moby Dick / Spanish Edition
Author Herman Melville
Binding Paperback
Pages 712
Volumes 1
Language SPA
Publisher Penguin Clasicos
Date 2017-01
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9788491050209 / 8491050205
Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 7.4 x 4.9 x 1.4 in (18.80 x 12.45 x 3.56 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Adventure fiction, Whales
Dewey Decimal Code 813.3

About the author

Herman Melville (Nueva York, 1819-1891) ha sido considerado por los estudiosos y la crtica como uno de los autores ms importantes de la literatura universal, un escritor de fro instinto y sorpresas constantes en cada pgina. Su capacidad narrativa y la profundidad psicolgica de sus personajes hacen de l un clsico imprescindible que, pese al paso del tiempo, sigue manteniendo la frescura, la lucidez y la calidad literaria que han seducido a generaciones de lectores.