Moby-Dick: Or the Whale

This edition of Moby-Dick, released in honor of the book's sesquicentennial, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers sets out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; Queequeg, a South Seas harpooner; Starbuck, the sober and serious chief mate; and above all Captain Ahab, part-Faust and part-Job, obsessed with the destruction of his foe.

This text of Moby-Dick is an Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 09/19/2001
ISBN: 9780810119116
Pages: 573
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.74w x 1.27d

Review Citations: Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2002 pg. 80 - Strongly Recommended