This edition of ""Moby-Dick"", released in honour of the book's 150th anniversary, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers set out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; Queenqueg, a South Seas harpooner; Starbuck, the sober and serious chief mate; and above all Captain Ahab, part Faust and part Job, leading them to the ends of the earth - and the destiny he will share with his foe. In ""Moby-Dick"", Melville set out to write ""a mighty book"" on a ""mighty theme"". This text of ""Moby-Dick"" is an Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America).
| ISBN: | 9780810119116 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2001 |
| Author: | Herman Melville, Hershel Parker |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 608 pages |
| Series: | Northwestern-Newberry Editions of the Writings of Herman Melville |
| Genres: |
Classics |