Moby-Dick, Or, The WhaleNorthwestern University Press, 1988 - 1043 sider In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. -- Amazon.com. |
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... Pequod . Devil - Dam , I do not know the origin of ; Tit - bit is obvious ; Pequod , you will no doubt remember , was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians , now extinct as the ancient Medes . I peered and pryed about ...
... Pequod . Devil - Dam , I do not know the origin of ; Tit - bit is obvious ; Pequod , you will no doubt remember , was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians , now extinct as the ancient Medes . I peered and pryed about ...
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... Pequod's company , be it said , that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery , are Americans born , though pretty nearly all the officers are . Herein it is the ...
... Pequod's company , be it said , that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery , are Americans born , though pretty nearly all the officers are . Herein it is the ...
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... Pequod has a " missing whaleboat " to be accounted for . Two explanations of this major discrepancy may be conjec- tured . A first , genetic explanation may be that at an earlier composition stage Melville actually gave the Pequod four ...
... Pequod has a " missing whaleboat " to be accounted for . Two explanations of this major discrepancy may be conjec- tured . A first , genetic explanation may be that at an earlier composition stage Melville actually gave the Pequod four ...
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