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1) Moby Dick
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"Call me Ishmael." Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature-the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod's captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab's former vessel and left him crippled. As the Pequod sails deeper through the nights and into the sea, the divisions between...
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"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand--to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of...
3) Moby Dick
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«Llamadme Ismael» es una de las primeras frases más recordadas en la historia de la literatura. Así comienza Moby Dick, la gran obra maestra de Herman Melville, viajero incansable que se inició en la literatura narrando sus aventuras por los mares del Sur. El épico duelo entre la ballena blanca y el capitán Ahab simboliza la eterna lucha entre el bien y el mal y constituye el ejemplo más logrado de algo que muchos otros autores estadounidenses...
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