An edition of Moby Dick (1851)

Moby-Dick, an authoritative text, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, criticism

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An edition of Moby Dick (1851)

Moby-Dick, an authoritative text, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, criticism

  • 3.78 ·
  • 118 Ratings
  • 951 Want to read
  • 58 Currently reading
  • 168 Have read

"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale." Key letters from Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne are printed at the end of this volume. - Back cover.

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Moby Dick
2018, Standard Ebooks
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Mobi-Dik: ili Belyĭ kit
2016, Rhetor Club Publisher
in Russian
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Moby Dick
2013, GITenberg
in English
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2008, Época
in Spanish
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Moby Dick
2007-03-06, LibriVox
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2007, Wonderland Books
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Moby Dick
2001-07-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Moby Dick
2001-01-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Moby Dick: die Jagd nach dem weissen Wal
1994, Ensslin und Laiblin
in German - 175. - 177. Tsd.
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Moby Dick
1991-05-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Moby Dick
1981, Presses pocket
in French
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Moby Dick
1966-11, Washington Square Press
in English
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Moby Dick: or The Whale
1965, Folkways Records & Service
in English
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Moby Dick
1892, United States Book Company
in English
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Moby Dick
Publish date unknown, Dean & Son
in English

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A Norton critical edition

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Open Library
OL16699727M
Internet Archive
mobydickauthorit00melv_0
ISBN 10
039309670X
OCLC/WorldCat
440271223
Library Thing
9742446
Goodreads
77373

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