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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... harpooneer , the more I abominated the thought of sleeping with him . It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer , his linen or woollen , as the case might be , would not be of the tidiest , certainly none of the finest . I began to ...
... harpooneer , the more I abominated the thought of sleeping with him . It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer , his linen or woollen , as the case might be , would not be of the tidiest , certainly none of the finest . I began to ...
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... harpooneer class of officers , a class unknown of course in any other marine than the whale - fleet . The large importance attached to the harpooneer's vocation is evinced by the fact , that originally in the old Dutch Fishery , two ...
... harpooneer class of officers , a class unknown of course in any other marine than the whale - fleet . The large importance attached to the harpooneer's vocation is evinced by the fact , that originally in the old Dutch Fishery , two ...
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... harpooneers . And even , it could be , on a harpooneer hero— on Bulkington , whom he intended to be Ishmael's comrade at sea , before he substituted the harpooneer Queequeg . In the opening three paragraphs of ' The Specksynder ' ( ch ...
... harpooneers . And even , it could be , on a harpooneer hero— on Bulkington , whom he intended to be Ishmael's comrade at sea , before he substituted the harpooneer Queequeg . In the opening three paragraphs of ' The Specksynder ' ( ch ...
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