Moby Dick (Moby-Dick, or, The Whale Moby-Dick or Sperm) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville published in 1851, whose title comes from the nickname given to a great white whale in the center of the plot. Melville, who was also sailor, like most of the heroes of his novels, is inspired by real events: Sperm whales continued all wore name. [Ref. needed] the sinking of the whaling ship Essex, which sank in 1820 after facing a large sperm whale 3,700 miles off the coast of South America. One of the surviving sailors, ...
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Moby Dick (Moby-Dick, or, The Whale Moby-Dick or Sperm) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville published in 1851, whose title comes from the nickname given to a great white whale in the center of the plot. Melville, who was also sailor, like most of the heroes of his novels, is inspired by real events: Sperm whales continued all wore name. [Ref. needed] the sinking of the whaling ship Essex, which sank in 1820 after facing a large sperm whale 3,700 miles off the coast of South America. One of the surviving sailors, Owen Chase, consigned this adventure in a book which appeared in 1821. The existence of a white whale, in the 1830s, often seen near the Chilean island of Mocha. Riddled with harpoons, Mocha Dick regularly attacked whalers. But unlike the drama of Essex, no hint in the novel or in the correspondence of the author authenticates this reference, despite testing JN Reynolds called Mocha Dick or The White Whale of the Pacific (1838). Writing the book was begun in 1850 The novel was first published in London in October 1851 under the title The Whale (The Sperm) -. Edition was incomplete and that the title was not the one intended by Melville. It is shortly after, when its U.S. release in November of the same year, the book became known as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Moby-Dick or Sperm)
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Very nice book, and extremely prompt shipping...thanks again!
milly
Oct 13, 2011
Hardcover in great shape, came exactly as described. This is a somewhat scarce,annotated edition. And, Moby Dick ( with or without the annotations), is THE single greatest book ever written.
joekc6nlx
Apr 24, 2008
The Great American Novel
When I studied this book in college, we discussed what Melville was describing in this story. It's not only about a young man's transformation through his experiences on the Pequod, nor is it only about Ahab's obsession with killing Moby Dick to the exclusion of all else. It's about man's struggle against Nature, the attempts by man to change, control, and eventually overcome Nature. Melville understood that man could never accomplish this, but would only end up destroying himself as Ahab destroyed himself by harpooning Moby Dick.
In my opinion, this is still the greatest American novel ever written, not only for the twin stories of Ishmael and Ahab, but also educational in how whalers lived, worked, and sometimes died.
