The text here is based on Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford's 1967 edition, footnoted to include biographical discoveries. Reviews, letters by Melville and belated praise is collected, and a wealth of new biographical material has been added, while new research is highlighted. Parker also explores what writing Moby-Dick cost Melville and his family.
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).
Title: Moby-Dick: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Parker, Hershel,Melville, Herman
ISBN: 9780393285000
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Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date: 2018-09-01
Number of Pages: 736
Weight: 0.5602 kg