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Product: Moby Dick (AmazonClassics Edition)
Description: Ignoring prophecies of doom, the seafarer Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling expedition that is an obsession for the ship’s captain, Ahab. Once maimed by the White Whale, Moby Dick, Ahab has set out on a voyage of revenge. With godlike ferocity, he surges into dangerous waters—immune to the madness of his vision, refusing to be bested by the forces of nature.

An exhilarating whaling yarn, an apocalyptic theodicy, a tragic confessional, and a profound allegory, Moby Dick encompasses all that it means to be human—from the physical and metaphysical to the spiritual and emotional. Full of strange wisdom and wild digressive energy, it’s a singular literary performance universally regarded as one of the great American novels.

Revised edition: Previously published as Moby Dick, this edition of Moby Dick (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
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Product: Moby-Dick (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Description: “One of the great strengths of this third edition is Hershel Parker’s inclusion of commentary on Moby-Dick from its publication in 1851 right into the 21st century to answer why Moby-Dick—boisterous, beautiful, filled with soaring language, forever questioning, and nearly 200 years old—is more popular than ever.” —MARY K. BERCAW EDWARDS, University of Connecticut

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Melville’s classic novel of whaling and revenge, based on Hershel Parker’s revision of the 1967 text edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker.
• Twenty-six illustrations, including maps, contemporary engravings, and diagrams of whaleboat rigging.
• Background and source materials centering on whaling and whalecraft, Melville’s international reception, the inspirations for Moby-Dick, and Melville’s related correspondence.
• Forty-four reviews and interpretations of the novel spanning three centuries.
• A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.
About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
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Product: Part 1
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Product: Moby Dick: The True Story
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Product: 2010: Moby Dick
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Product: MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville; EASTON PRESS LEATHER
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Product: Moby-Dick, or, the Whale: Illustration
Description: "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers.

A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary
history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy
war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more
than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the
book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with
wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith,
and the nature of perception.
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Product: Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale (Illustrated & Annotated) (Great American Novel (GAN) Book 3)
Description: Third volume in the series “Great American Novel”.
This series includes some books referenced as GAN.
The idea of the Great American Novel (GAN) is the concept of a novel of high literary merit that shows the culture of the United States at a specific time in the country's history. The novel is presumably written by an American author who is knowledgeable about the state, culture, and perspective of the common United States citizen. The author uses the literary work to identify and exhibit the language used by the people of the U.S. during that time and to capture the unique experience of living in the U.S. or one part of the U.S., especially at that time. In historical terms, it is sometimes equated as being the U.S. response to the national epic.

About the series. GAN (Great American Novel).
VOLUME 1. 1826 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Annotated by “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses” by Mark Twain.)
VOLUME 2. 1850 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated by Mary Hallock. Annotated by “Hawthorne” by Henry James.
VOLUME 3. 1851 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer. Annotated by Raymond Melbourne Weaver).
VOLUME 4. 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
VOLUME 5. 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / 1884 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
VOLUME 6. 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
VOLUME 7. 1925 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.
VOLUME 8. 1932 Light in August / 1936 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner.

“Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the twentieth century. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". "Call me Ishmael" is one of world literature's most famous opening sentences. The product of a year and a half of writing, the book is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne, "in token of my admiration for his genius", and draws on Melville's experience at sea, on his reading in whaling literature, and on literary inspirations such as Shakespeare and the Bible. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. In addition to narrative prose, Melville uses styles and literary devices ranging from songs, poetry and catalogs to Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies and asides.

Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic (1921) was the first full-length study of Melville. Weaver presents Melville as a disappointed and disillusioned genius who rebelled against social convention and paid the price: "His whole history is the record of an attempt to escape from an inexorable and intolerable world of reality." Weaver praises Melville for establishing the South Seas as a suitable topic for literature and for his depictions of a sailor's sea-life, but saved his highest praise for Moby-Dick, Melville's "undoubted masterpiece.
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Product: In the Heart of the Sea
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Product: Moby Dick: Heart of a Whale
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Product: Moby Dick
Description: "One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence
"‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner
"What a book Melville has written! It gives me an idea of much greater power than his preceding ones. It hardly seemed to me that the review of it, in the ‘Literary World’, did justice to its best points." —Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The greatest novel in American literature." —Elizabeth Hardwick
"‘Moby-Dick’ is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual — the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century." —Nathaniel Philbrick
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul.
Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel, and a wealth of information on whales and 19th-century whaling, Melville's greatest work presents an imaginative and thrilling picture of life at sea, as well as a portrait of heroic determination. The author's keen powers of observation and firsthand knowledge of shipboard life (he served aboard a whaler himself) were key ingredients in crafting a maritime story that dramatically examines the conflict between man and nature.
“A valuable addition to the literature of the day,” said American journalist Horace Greeley on the publication of Moby-Dick in 1851 — a classic piece of understatement about a literary classic now considered by many as “the great American novel.” Read and pondered by generations, the novel remains an unsurpassed account of the ultimate human struggle against the indifference of nature and the awful power of fate.
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Product: Why Read Moby-Dick? by Philbrick, Nathaniel (2013) Paperback
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Product: Moby Dick (1956)
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Product: Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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Product: Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
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Product: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations (Hardcover))
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Product: Classic Starts®: Moby-Dick (Classic Starts® Series)
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Product: Moby-Dick (Macmillan Collector's Library)
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MACMILLAN COLLECTORS LIBRARY
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Product: Moby-Dick; or, The whale.By: Herman Melville,this book is inscribed to Nathaniel Hathorne (complete aet volume 1, and 2).: Novel, adventure fiction, sea story.
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Product: MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE (COLLECTOR'S EDITION with an INTRODUCTION BY CLIFTON FADIMAN)
Brand: Thomas Nelson
Description: Factory sealed!!! Easton Press. Beautiful new Easton Press, 22kt gold-stamped spine accents. Distinctive raised spine hubs. Intricate gilt stamped cover designs, specially milled acid-neutral paper, smith-sewn pages, gilded page edges, permanent satin ribbon page-marker. Orders ship the same day. Free tracking.
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Product: Moby Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
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Product: Moby Dick (1000 Copy Limited Edition)
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Product: Moby Dick (Flame Tree Collectable Classics)
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Product: Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)
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Product: Moby Dick Herman Melville Classic Novel (Travel and Adventure, Captain Ahab, Whaling, Sailing and Fishing Tale), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting
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