Moby Dick by Hershel Parker and Herman. Melville (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393285006
ISBN-139780393285000
eBay Product ID (ePID)239807958

Product Key Features

Edition3
Book TitleMoby Dick
Number of Pages736 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Action & Adventure, Sea Stories, Fantasy / Epic
Publication Year2017
GenreFiction
AuthorHershel Parker, Herman. Melville
Book SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2017-028806
Dewey Edition23/eng/20230302
Series Volume Number0
Dewey Decimal813/.3
Edition DescriptionCritical
SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition includes: * Melville's classic novel of whaling and revenge, based on Hershel Parker's 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, Melville's international reception, the inspirations for Moby-Dick, and Melville's 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., "One of the great strengths of this third edition is Hershel Parker's 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, This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Melville's classic novel of whaling and revenge, based on Hershel Parker's 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, Melville's international reception, the inspirations for Moby-Dick , and Melville's 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., "One of the great strengths of this third edition is Hershel Parker's 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
LC Classification NumberPS2384
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