Moby-Dick
By: Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford ; pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.
Contributors: Parker, Hershel.; Hayford, Harrison.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 726
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Whaling ships -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Whaling -- Fiction; Whales -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 725-726).
"An authoritative text before Moby Dick: international controversy, reviews, and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, reviews of Moby-Dick, criticism."
"150th anniversary ed."--Cover.