Hershel Parker
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©1996-©2002
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.
3) Moby Dick
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Call me Ishmael". So begins Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's epic account of the last voyage of the ill-fated whaling ship Pequod, and its captain's obsessive pursuit of the legendary white whale that maimed him years before. Melville's classic novel has given American literature some of its most iconic characters. Inspired by the real-life ordeal of the crew of the whaling ship Essex--who, in 1819, were set adrift in the heart of the sea for eighty-nine...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 706 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the most widely-read and respected books in all American literature, Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter. A novel blending high-seas romantic adventure, symbolic allegory, and the conflicting ideals of heroic determination and undying hatred, Moby Dick is also revered for its historical accounts of the whaling industry of the 1800's....
Author
Series
Library of America volume 320
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
990 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise physical detail and rich metaphysical speculation in an unorthodox...
