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xv, 726 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Moby Dick (1851) is an epic tale of the conflict between man and his fate. Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to destroy the great white whale that tore off his leg leads the Pequod and its crew to disaster. Melville's extraordinary narrative defies classification: it teems with ideas and imagery and the passion of its author.
Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford ; pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.
"An authoritative text before Moby Dick: international controversy, reviews, and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, reviews of Moby-Dick, criticism."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 725-726).