Moby-Dick, 2nd Edition
$20.63
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2022
Summary
“It will be a strange sort of a book, tho’, I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho’ you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;–& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy…. Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this.”
Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel’s unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198853695 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198853696 |
| Author: | Herman Melville, Hester Blum |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
Herman Melville
Edited by Hester Blum
Hester Blum is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (2008) and The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (2019), as well as several edited volumes. Blum is past president of the Herman Melville Society, and her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She participated in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s last surviving wooden whaleship and the sister ship to the Acushnet, in which Melville sailed.
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