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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... nature , and open him still further to those latent influences which , in some honest - hearted men , restrain the ... nature that a man so organized , and with such terrible ex- periences and remembrances as he had ; it was not in ...
... nature , and open him still further to those latent influences which , in some honest - hearted men , restrain the ... nature that a man so organized , and with such terrible ex- periences and remembrances as he had ; it was not in ...
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... Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender , free from the same heinousness of mistake . Look at that popular work " Goldsmith's Animated Nature . " In the abridged London edition of 1807 , there are plates of an alleged ...
... Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender , free from the same heinousness of mistake . Look at that popular work " Goldsmith's Animated Nature . " In the abridged London edition of 1807 , there are plates of an alleged ...
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... nature - writers . Dr. Jones had in fact seen Melville years before in a Manhattan book- store without knowing who ... nature and society , were threatened by his proposed collec- tion of essays on " the whole Nature subject , " to be ...
... nature - writers . Dr. Jones had in fact seen Melville years before in a Manhattan book- store without knowing who ... nature and society , were threatened by his proposed collec- tion of essays on " the whole Nature subject , " to be ...
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