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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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"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 that cost their captain his leg on a previous expedition. 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, leading his men to the ends of the earth - and the destiny he will share with his foe." "Melville was heavily influenced and inspired by his experiences as a young cabin boy on the whaler Acushnet and later in the U.S. Navy sailing the Atlantic and the South Seas. His novel Typee and its sequel, Omoo, are accounts of his capture and subsequent captivity at the hands of a tribe of cannibals in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Both works were highly successful, and thus the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick upon its release in 1851 was a blow to Melville, who had set out to write a "mighty book" on a "mighty theme." It was not until the 1920s that Moby-Dick began to receive the critical attention it deserved. Today Moby-Dick is recognized as one of the premier American epics and indeed the ultimate tale of obsession and revenge." "This text of Moby-Dick is an Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America)."--Jacket.

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Diaries
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Fiction
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Literature
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Chase, Owen.Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket
Jones, Howard Mumford,1892-1980
Kent, Rockwell,1882-1971
Elias, Monica
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Moby Dick : or the whale / by Herman Melville ; illustrted by Rockwell Kent
Moby Dick Or, The Whale
Moby Dick, or the Whale / Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville ; illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville ; introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick ; illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Moby Dick, or, the whale
Moby Dick; or, The whale / by Herman Melville ; with an introduction by Clifton Fadiman and illustrations by Boardman Robinson
Moby Dick; or, The whale Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Moby-Dick : or the whale / Herman Melville ; and an extract from Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-sip Essex / by Owen Chase
Moby-Dick : or, The whale / Herman Melville
Moby-Dick : or, The whale / Herman Melville ; commentary by Howard Mumford Jones ; text and notes prepared by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker ; illustrated by Warren Chappell
Moby-Dick or the Whale / Herman Melville
Moby-Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville
Moby-Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville ; cover design by Monica Elias ; cover illustration by Donald David
Moby-Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville ; introduction by Andrew Delbanco ; notes and explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk
Moby-Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville ; with a new foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick
Moby-Dick, or, the Whale / Herman Melville
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