Moby-Dick, or the Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition by Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick, or the Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810102682)

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Moby-Dick, or the Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition by Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick, or the Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

$120.00
Moby-Dick, or the Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition by Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick, or the Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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.

This scholarly edition is based on collations of both editions published during Melville's lifetime, it adopts 185 revisions and corrections from the English edition and incorporates 237 emendations by the series editors. This is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).


Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 0810102684
ISBN-13: 9780810102682
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1988
Pages: 1048
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.56lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.75w x 2.49d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.3
Point Value: 42
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 711 / Moby-Dick, Or, the Whale (English)


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/1988
By Herman Melville
By Herman Melville
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HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

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