Hello those who present. I have read Moby Dick by Herman Melville and today I will
tell you about it and about a reader journal I had done. I will start with the
1. Information about the author:
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Best known
for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick, which had been
issued in 1851. Melville`s growing literary ambition is shown in Moby Dick, which
took nearly a year and a half to write,it did not find an audience from the
beginning but later it became popular and recognized.
2. Let's move to the background information of the book:
Story was inspired by a real disaster. While on the Acushnet, Melville had learned
about an infamous shipwreck from the son of its survivors. In November 1820, a
massive sperm whale had attacked and sunk the whaleship Essex of Nantucket in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean. The crew, stranded in three small boats, drew over
4,000 miles to South America to avoid natives, but some ended up eating their dead
shipmates to survive. Moby Dick is included in the canon of literature, art,
opera, theater, film and daily life.…
