Moby-Dick, or The Whale: 150th Anniversary Edition (Melville) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810119110 ISBN 13: 9780810119116

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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).

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From the Author:

Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819 in New York City. Son of a prosperous importer and a famous grandfather, Melville became a prolific writer at a very young age. Melville died on September 28, 1891.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0810119110
• ISBN 13: 9780810119116
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 573
• Editor: Tanselle G. Thomas, Parker Hershel, Hayford Harrison