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Moby-Dick
Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author), Parker, Hershel (Editor)
ISBN: 0393285006     ISBN-13: 9780393285000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $28.03  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2017028806
Lexile Measure: 1200
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 736 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 135391
Reading Level: 4.9   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

This Norton Critical Edition includes:


- Melville's classic novel of whaling and revenge, based on Hershel Parker's revision of the 1967 text edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker.
- Twenty-six illustrations, including maps, contemporary engravings, and diagrams of whaleboat rigging.
- Background and source materials centering on whaling and whalecraft, Melville's international reception, the inspirations for Moby-Dick, and Melville's related correspondence.
- Forty-four reviews and interpretations of the novel spanning three centuries.
- A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Contributor Bio(s): Parker, Hershel: - Hershel Parker is a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, and of the Norton Critical Edition of Melville's The Confidence-Man and Moby Dick. He is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry).