Moby-Dick: or, The WhalePenguin, 2002 M12 31 - 720 pages Herman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history—featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and notes by Tom Quirk. This edition features the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text, approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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Page xiii
... Dick in a messianic fervor because he wanted to save his country from itself . One way to approach Melville's forbidding text is to regard it as part of his lifelong meditation on America . The country into which Melville was born in ...
... Dick in a messianic fervor because he wanted to save his country from itself . One way to approach Melville's forbidding text is to regard it as part of his lifelong meditation on America . The country into which Melville was born in ...
Page xiv
... Dick , sev- eral were records of this struggle : Redburn ( 1849 ) , in which a young man journeys down the Hudson from his once - glorious family seat and endures the embarrassment of being unable to pay his passage ; White Jacket ...
... Dick , sev- eral were records of this struggle : Redburn ( 1849 ) , in which a young man journeys down the Hudson from his once - glorious family seat and endures the embarrassment of being unable to pay his passage ; White Jacket ...
Page xv
... Dick , he was , in other words , a young writer ( only thirty - one ) who had already experi- enced the flush of literary celebrity and the fickleness of an audience that rejected him when he turned earnest in his huge metaphysical ...
... Dick , he was , in other words , a young writer ( only thirty - one ) who had already experi- enced the flush of literary celebrity and the fickleness of an audience that rejected him when he turned earnest in his huge metaphysical ...
Page xvi
... Dick lurched forward in spasms rather than being built systematically according to some initial plan . Yet despite efforts to match allusions to contemporary events , and otherwise to trace the process of revision , it remains ...
... Dick lurched forward in spasms rather than being built systematically according to some initial plan . Yet despite efforts to match allusions to contemporary events , and otherwise to trace the process of revision , it remains ...
Page xvii
... Dick is an outburst of a fluid consciousness in which ideas and persons appear and collide and form new combinations and sometimes drop away . If it begins as a young man's adventures , by the thirtieth chapter Ishmael has all but ...
... Dick is an outburst of a fluid consciousness in which ideas and persons appear and collide and form new combinations and sometimes drop away . If it begins as a young man's adventures , by the thirtieth chapter Ishmael has all but ...
Contents
VII | 3 |
VIII | 9 |
IX | 13 |
X | 28 |
XI | 33 |
XII | 36 |
XIII | 39 |
XIV | 43 |
LXXVIII | 348 |
LXXIX | 353 |
LXXX | 359 |
LXXXI | 364 |
LXXXII | 368 |
LXXXIII | 371 |
LXXXIV | 373 |
LXXXV | 378 |
XV | 46 |
XVI | 55 |
XVII | 59 |
XVIII | 61 |
XIX | 64 |
XX | 69 |
XXI | 72 |
XXII | 76 |
XXIII | 90 |
XXIV | 96 |
XXV | 100 |
XXVI | 104 |
XXVII | 107 |
XXVIII | 111 |
XXIX | 116 |
XXX | 118 |
XXXI | 123 |
XXXII | 124 |
XXXIII | 128 |
XXXIV | 133 |
XXXV | 137 |
XXXVI | 141 |
XXXVII | 142 |
XXXVIII | 145 |
XXXIX | 158 |
XL | 161 |
XLI | 167 |
XLII | 174 |
XLIII | 182 |
XLIV | 184 |
XLV | 186 |
XLVI | 187 |
XLVII | 194 |
XLVIII | 204 |
XLIX | 213 |
L | 215 |
LI | 221 |
LII | 230 |
LIII | 233 |
LIV | 236 |
LV | 247 |
LVI | 250 |
LVII | 253 |
LVIII | 257 |
LIX | 260 |
LX | 265 |
LXI | 285 |
LXII | 290 |
LXIII | 294 |
LXIV | 297 |
LXV | 300 |
LXVI | 303 |
LXVII | 307 |
LXVIII | 313 |
LXIX | 315 |
LXX | 317 |
LXXI | 325 |
LXXII | 328 |
LXXIII | 330 |
LXXIV | 332 |
LXXV | 336 |
LXXVI | 338 |
LXXVII | 341 |
LXXXVI | 381 |
LXXXVII | 384 |
LXXXVIII | 395 |
LXXXIX | 399 |
XC | 402 |
XCI | 405 |
XCII | 410 |
XCIII | 415 |
XCIV | 428 |
XCV | 432 |
XCVI | 436 |
XCVII | 440 |
XCVIII | 447 |
XCIX | 450 |
C | 455 |
CI | 459 |
CII | 461 |
CIII | 466 |
CIV | 467 |
CV | 470 |
CVI | 476 |
CVII | 483 |
CVIII | 488 |
CIX | 493 |
CX | 496 |
CXI | 500 |
CXII | 505 |
CXIII | 508 |
CXIV | 511 |
CXV | 516 |
CXVI | 519 |
CXVII | 525 |
CXVIII | 527 |
CXIX | 530 |
CXX | 534 |
CXXI | 536 |
CXXII | 539 |
CXXIII | 541 |
CXXIV | 543 |
CXXV | 546 |
CXXVI | 553 |
CXXVII | 554 |
CXXVIII | 556 |
CXXIX | 557 |
CXXX | 561 |
CXXXI | 565 |
CXXXII | 569 |
CXXXIII | 573 |
CXXXIV | 576 |
CXXXV | 580 |
CXXXVI | 582 |
CXXXVII | 587 |
CXXXVIII | 589 |
CXXXIX | 594 |
CXL | 604 |
CXLI | 613 |
CXLII | 625 |
CXLIII | 629 |
CXLIV | 635 |
CXLV | 651 |
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Common terms and phrases
Ahab's aloft beneath Bildad boat bones bows Bulkington cabin called Cape Horn Captain Ahab Captain Peleg Cetology CHAPTER chase chief mate coffin creature crew cried Ahab Daggoo dark darted dead deck devil doubloon eyes feet fish fishery Flask flukes forecastle gunwale hand harpoon head heard heart hoisted instant iron Ishmael Jonah lance Leviathan living look mast mast-head mate Melville Moby Dick Moby-Dick Nantucket never night oars ocean once Parsee Peleg Pequod Queequeg Right Whale rolled rope round sail sailors seemed seen sharks ship ship's shipmates side sight soon sort soul Sperm Whale spermaceti spout standing Starbuck Steelkilt stern stood strange Stubb tail Tashtego tell thee thing thou thought turned vessel voyage whale-ship whalemen White Whale wild wind