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Moby-Dick, or the Whale : 150th Anniversary Edition by Herman Melville (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorthwestern University Press

ISBN-100810119110

ISBN-139780810119116

eBay Product ID (ePID)1954424

Product Key Features

Edition150

Book TitleMoby-Dick, or the Whale : 150th Anniversary Edition

Number of Pages608 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Classics, Literary, Action & Adventure

Publication Year2001

GenreFiction

AuthorHerman Melville

Book SeriesMelville Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight24.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-044114

Dewey Edition22

Reviews". . . an important work of scholarship because it provides the best text currently available for the his carefully studied novel. Hayford and Parker have been the first editors to realize that Melville must have read and corrected the American proofsheets from which the English edition was printed and that a considerable number of English readings have hitherto unrecognized authority for inclusion in a critical text." -- Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Dewey Decimal813/.3

Edition DescriptionReprint,Anniversary

SynopsisThis 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)., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS2384.M6 2001b