Ergebnis für "moby dick" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

In ihrem ersten Buch "Die weiße Massai" erzählt Corinne Hofmann die Geschichte ihres vierjährigen Aufenthalts im Norden Kenias. Auf einer Urlaubsreise begegnet sie dem Samburu-Krieger Lketinga und verliebt sich in ihn. Sie entschließt sich bei ihm zu leben, verlässt ihren Lebensgefährten und zieht in den kenianischen Busch. Nach ihrer Heirat mit Lketinga wird ihre gemeinsame Tochter Napirai geboren und scheint das Glück der beiden zu krönen.

American writers have long sought to compose "the great American novel", or "America's epic", Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby have been advanced as plausible contenders for the title, but no work can mount a more substantial claim than Herman Melville's Moby Dick, or The Whale.

As much as you have the deepest abiding respect for the courage, character, and conviction of an icon who assailed insurmountable odds to place an enduring mark on this universe, that icon is not you. You are different. Your journey is different. Your time is different. Your circumstances are different.

A decade and a half before surprising the world with a book of Civil War poetry, Herman Melville was already confident of what was “poetic” in his prose. As Hershel Parker demonstrates in this book, Melville was steeped in poetry long before he called himself a poet. Here Parker, the dean of Melville studies, gives a compelling, in-depth account of how one of America’s greatest writers grew into the vocation of a poet.