Call me Ishmael.
An edition of Moby Dick
(1851)
Moby Dick, or, The whale
by Herman Melville
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"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: die Jagd nach dem weissen Wal
1994, Ensslin und Laiblin
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Table of Contents
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{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Appendix A. Chronology. Creating Moby-Dick. Letters. Reviews. Rebirth.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Appendix B. Chronology of whales. Chronology of whaling. Dictionary of sea terms'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': "At Melville's tomb / by Hart Crane."}
Edition Notes
"The text of Moby-Dick in this volume is from the Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle"--P. [v].
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