Books : Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America)
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by: Herman Melville, George Thomas Tanselle
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780940450097
ISBN: 0940450097
Label: Library of America
Manufacturer: Library of America
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1436
Publication Date: April 15, 1983
Publisher: Library of America
Sales Rank: 170529
Studio: Library of America
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
'Moby-Dick,' Melville's masterpiece, is one of the great epics in all of literature. Ahab's idolatrous hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, the sublime indifference of nature, and the grimy physical details of whale-oil extraction provide a reflective counterpoint. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or as a critical inquiry into the sinister effects of reducing life to symbols, 'Moby-Dick' also offers colorful and comic glimpses of life aboard a whaling ship. This second volume of Melville's complete prose in The Library of America also includes two other stories of the sea: 'Redburn,' which relates a young man's initiation into the sailor's life, and 'White-Jacket,' a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy. All three are presented in the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry texts.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Moby-Dick, as my father once said, is one of the greatest novels ever written
Melville is one of the greatest American authors ever, and Moby-Dick alone is worth the price for this book. When I read the book myself in american literature, I was amazed at the extensive detail taken into the culture of whaling, a culture that was in its twilight days; it also gave us more information about whales that some think is too much, but whatever. Even though I didn't completely understand the book (but so did everything I read in high school), I have the desire to read it again.
Rating: - Brilliant Presages of Moby-Dick
While White-Jacket seems to have little overall relation to Melville's other works in the sense that it appears as a self-contained, highly enjoyable novel, Redburn is one of those central turning points in this great writer's life that makes it extraordinarily important. Forget "adventure" or "romance." This is a novel of psychological destruction, a disasterous novel of "growing up" that displays the shattering of a young mind and the destruction of "young America." Any reader who loves ... Read More
Rating:  - The content was very exciting.
Complicated to absorb into your mind as you read along, due to the expert writing of this this material. I had to reread just about everything at least 5 times for it to make any sense at all. I'm in the 9th grade. Daniel Barclay-son of Paul
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