Moby-Dick: Or the Whale by Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick: Or the Whale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810119116)

Vendor: Herman Melville
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Format: Paperback
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Moby-Dick: Or the Whale by Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick: Or the Whale

$19.95
Moby-Dick: Or the Whale by Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick: Or the Whale

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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This edition of Moby-Dick, released in honor of the book's sesquicentennial, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers sets out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; Queequeg, a South Seas harpooner; Starbuck, the sober and serious chief mate; and above all Captain Ahab, part-Faust and part-Job, obsessed with the destruction of his foe.

This text of Moby-Dick is an Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America).

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 0810119110
ISBN-13: 9780810119116
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2001
Pages: 573
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.74w x 1.27d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2002 pg. 80 - Strongly Recommended
By Herman Melville
By Herman Melville
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HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

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