Moby Dick the Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
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This premium quality edition contains the complete and unabridged
original classic version of Moby Dick, printed on heavyweight,
bright white paper in a large 7.44x9.69 format, with a laminated
cover featuring an original design. Also included is a detailed
introductory essay discussing the life and work of Herman Melville
and the history and significance of Moby Dick, providing the modern
reader with useful background information to enhance the enjoyment
of this classic. Herman Melville is known today primarily for his
iconic whaling novel, Moby Dick (1851), the story of the struggle
between Captain Ahab and the great white whale, which appears on
many lists of greatest books ever written and is considered an
essential part of the Western Canon. Ironically, when the novel was
published it was a monumental flop and signaled the end of
Melvilles's career as a novelist. One theory is that the omission
of the epilogue from the first printing left the book open to
ridicule as a first-person narrative in which the narrator did not
survive to tell the tale. He published several more novels, all
without success, and in 1866 became a New York customs inspector,
all but forgotten for the next fifty years. It was not until the
rise of the modernist movement that Moby Dick was recognized as a
great literary work. What once were regarded as serious flaws came
to be viewed as literary innovations, and the novel went from being
criticized as undisciplined and poorly crafted to being hailed as
ahead of its time and visionary. For the modern reader, the complex
analytical theories behind Moby Dick may get in the way of enjoying
the novel for its own sake. Taking Moby Dick at face value, it is
an interesting tale, rich with diverse characters and evocative
themes like friendship, class and social status, good and evil,
isolation and community, the existence of God, obsession and human
perception. A vivid depiction of life aboard ship in the nineteenth
century it is perhaps the most detailed and accessible existing
picture of what was, for a time, the richest industry in the United
States. If at times the text seems stilted or antiquated, as might
be expected from any work from this era, it is equally true that at
times the text attains a soaring, almost lyric tone. The most
casual reader cannot fail to appreciate the unforgettable
characters, compelling storyline and vivid depictions of whales,
whalers and whaling, and the obsession-driven quest after the great
white whale upon which Ahab leads, and the crew follows, to their
doom. And this, without anything more, makes Moby Dick essential
reading. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an author of the American
Renaissance, or Romantic, period. Born in New York City, he was the
third child of a successful merchant. He worked as a schoolteacher
before going to sea for the first time in 1839. Serving on a whaler
in 1842, he jumped ship and spent a month living among South
Pacific islanders. His first novel, Typee (1846), a bestseller, was
based in part on his experiences in the South Pacific as was the
successful sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville, now a
successful novelist, married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw. They would have
four children between 1849 and 1855. Mardi and Redburn, both
published in 1849, met with limited success. Mardi in particular
was criticized as so thematically dense as to be incomprehensible.
White-Jacket (1850), based on Melville's brief service in the U.S.
Navy, was his most influential work during his lifetime, with
graphic descriptions of flogging that led directly to banning the
practice on naval vessels. Moby Dick and several additional failed
novels and poetry collections followed. Melville sank into
obscurity and died in 1891, about 20 years before Moby Dick was
recognized as a literary classic.
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