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 xiv
... Melville's years of wandering - first aboard a merchant vessel that took him to Europe , later as a crewman on a United States frigate in the Pacific . Through these books Melville began to enlarge his private trials into an allegory of ...
... Melville's years of wandering - first aboard a merchant vessel that took him to Europe , later as a crewman on a United States frigate in the Pacific . Through these books Melville began to enlarge his private trials into an allegory of ...
Page xv
... Melville's reputation as " the man who lived among canni- bals . " In fact , they were sophisticated explorations of ... Melville was accorded merely an appreciative paragraph in the chapter on " Travellers and Explorers " -and without ...
... Melville's reputation as " the man who lived among canni- bals . " In fact , they were sophisticated explorations of ... Melville was accorded merely an appreciative paragraph in the chapter on " Travellers and Explorers " -and without ...
Page xvi
... Melville's friend , the influential critic Evert Duyckinck , read and approved an early draft but denigrated the final text as an " intellectual chowder " ; and there is other evi- dence that Moby - Dick lurched forward in spasms rather ...
... Melville's friend , the influential critic Evert Duyckinck , read and approved an early draft but denigrated the final text as an " intellectual chowder " ; and there is other evi- dence that Moby - Dick lurched forward in spasms rather ...
Page xvii
or, The Whale Herman Melville. fulfilled place within the world that Melville imagines into being . More than a crafted fiction , Moby - Dick is an outburst of a fluid consciousness in which ideas and persons appear and collide and form ...
or, The Whale Herman Melville. fulfilled place within the world that Melville imagines into being . More than a crafted fiction , Moby - Dick is an outburst of a fluid consciousness in which ideas and persons appear and collide and form ...
Page xix
... Melville himself incorporates both , and he feels their claims with equal fervor . The expansion and unstiffening of Ishmael's mind are more and more manifest in Melville's own ecstatic wordplay , in his generic mischievousness and ...
... Melville himself incorporates both , and he feels their claims with equal fervor . The expansion and unstiffening of Ishmael's mind are more and more manifest in Melville's own ecstatic wordplay , in his generic mischievousness and ...
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