Moby Dick : or The whale
In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. -- Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 1988
Northwestern University Press ; Newberry Library, Evanston [Ill.], Chicago, 1988
Sea stories
xxviii, 1043 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm
9780810102682, 9780810102699, 0810102684, 0810102692
35172339
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