Moby-Dick: A Norton Critical Edition by Herman Melville (English) Paperback Book

Description: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Hershel Parker From the foreword to the selected bibliography this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for the study of Moby-Dick. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This Norton Critical Edition includes: Melvilles classic novel of whaling and revenge, based on Hershel Parkers revision of the 1967 text edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker. Twenty-six illustrations, including maps, contemporary engravings, and diagrams of whaleboat rigging. Background and source materials centering on whaling and whalecraft, Melvilles international reception, the inspirations for Moby-Dick, and Melvilles related correspondence. Forty-four reviews and interpretations of the novel spanning three centuries. A revised and updated Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need. Author Biography Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third child of Maria and Allan Gansevoort Melvill. (The final e was added to the family name later.) His fathers financial difficulties and his early death while Melville was still a youth disrupted his formal education. Instead, Melville tried his hand at a variety of occupations before joining the crew of a merchant ship bound for England in 1839. Two years later he sailed to the South Seas aboard the whaler Acushnet. His early fiction, like the novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), drew upon and often embellished his exotic maritime adventures, earning him both popular and critical acclaim. But by the time he published Moby-Dick in 1851, his writing career was in decline, as both sales and praise of his works dwindled. Although he would subsequently publish two more novels and a number of short stories—including the masterpieces "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno"—Melville spent the last three decades of his life primarily writing poetry. Largely forgotten at the time of his death on April 19, 1891, Melville, along with his unfinished novella Billy Budd, was rediscovered and his reputation revived in the early decades of the twentieth century. Hershel Parker is a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, and of the Norton Critical Edition of Melvilles The Confidence-Man and Moby Dick. He is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry). Long Description "One of the great strengths of this third edition is Hershel Parkers inclusion of commentary on Moby-Dick from its publication in 1851 right into the 21st century to answer why Moby-Dick--boisterous, beautiful, filled with soaring language, forever questioning, and nearly 200 years old--is more popular than ever." --MARY K. BERCAW EDWARDS, University of Connecticut Details ISBN0393285006 Author Hershel Parker ISBN-10 0393285006 ISBN-13 9780393285000 Format Paperback Series Norton Critical Editions Pages 736 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Birth 1819 Death 1891 DEWEY FIC Edited by Hershel Parker Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified Replaces 9780393972832 Language English Edition 3rd Year 2018 NZ Release Date 2018-09-01 US Release Date 2018-09-01 Publication Date 2018-09-01 UK Release Date 2018-09-01 Subtitle A Norton Critical Edition Publisher WW Norton & Co Edition Description Third Edition Audience General AU Release Date 2018-01-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123720614;

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