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Moby Dick, or, The white whale / by Herman Melville.

by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

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New American Library, c1961.

Whalers (Persons) -- Fiction.

White whale -- Fiction.

Whaling -- Fiction.

Whales -- Fiction.

Whaling ships -- Fiction.

Ship captains -- Fiction.

Mentally ill -- Fiction.

Obsession (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Signet classic.

Penguin classics.

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Wordsworth classics.

World's best reading.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 40.

9781509826643 (2016 MacMillan Collector's Library hc. ed.)

9781785996337 (2016 Arcturus trade pbk.)

9781848373266 (2009 Arcturus trade pbk.)

9780143105954 (2009 Penguin Classics deluxe edition trade pbk.)

9780199535729 (2008 Oxford World's Classics trade pbk.)

9780142000083 (2001 Penguin (150th anniversary editon trade pbk.)

9780679783275 (2000 Modern Library trade pbk.)

9780451510143 (1961 New American Library)

9780451524553 (1980 Signet Classic pbk.)

9780895773227 (1989 Reader's Digest)

9780679405597 (1991 Everyman's Library #40 hardcover)

Alternate title:

1 v. (various pagings).

First published by Richard Bentley in London in 1851 in an expurgated three-volume edition titled The Whale, and later as one massive volume, by New York City publisher Harper and Brothers as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale on November 14, 1851.

[This record reflects various editions with several different introductionsand or afterwords by various people].

Signet Classic editions include an afterword by Denham Sutcliffe.

1989 Reader's Digest edition contains illustrations by Joseph Ciardiello ; afterword by Thomas Fleming.

1991 Everyman's Library #40 hardcover edition contains an introduction by Larzer Ziff.

2000 Modern Library trade paperback edition is illustrated by Rockwell Kent with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick.

2001 Penguin (150th anniversary editon trade paperback) contains a new foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.

2008 Oxford World's Classics trade paperback edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner.

2009 Penguin Classics deluxe edition trade paperback contains a foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.

2009 and 2016 Arcturus trade paperback edition has an introduction by Brian Busby.

"A masterpiece of storytelling, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's story represents the ultimate human struggle." -- Youth Services Team, HPL.

"The narrator (who asks to be called "Ishmael") tells of the last voyage of the ship Pequod out of New Bedford, Mass. Captain Ahab is obsessed with the pursuit of the white whale Moby-Dick, which finally kills him. On that level, the work is an intense, superbly authentic narrative. Its theme and central figure, however, are reminiscent of Job in his search for justice and of Oedipus in his search for truth. The novel's richly symbolic language and tragic hero are indicative of Melville's deeper concerns: the equivocal defeats and triumphs of the human spirit and its fusion of creative and murderous urges."--Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.

Historical fiction.

Adventure fiction

Classic fiction.

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