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Moby-Dick / Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford ; pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.

Title
Moby-Dick / Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford ; pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.
Author
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Publication
New York : Norton, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Hayford, Harrison.
  • Parker, Hershel.
Description
xv, 726 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"Moby Dick (1851) is an epic tale of the conflict between man and his fate. Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to destroy the great white whale that tore off his leg leads the Pequod and its crew to disaster. Melville's extraordinary narrative defies c1assification: it teems with ideas and imagery and the passion of its author."--Jacket.
Series Statement
A Norton critical edition
Uniform Title
Moby Dick
Alternative Title
Moby Dick
Subject
  • Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction
  • Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
  • Mentally ill > Fiction
  • Ship captains > Fiction
  • Whales > Fiction
  • Whaling > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Adventure fiction.
  • Adventure stories.
  • Allegories.
  • Epic literature.
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Psychological fiction
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Sea stories
  • Sea stories.
Note
  • "An authoritative text before Moby Dick: international controversy, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, reviews of Moby-Dick, criticism."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 725-726).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • [Pt. 1] The text of Moby-Dick; or, the whale -- Contents of Moby-Dick -- Moby-Dick.
  • [Pt. 2] Contexts -- Melville's reading and Moby-Dick : an overview and a bibliography -- Whaling and whalecraft -- Before Moby-Dick : international controversy over Melville -- Reviews and letters by Melville -- Analogues and sources
  • [Pt. 3] Criticism -- Reviews of Moby-Dick -- Posthumous praise and the Melville revival : 1893-1927 -- A handful of critical challenges.
ISBN
0393972836 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2001042716
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library