by Herman Melville (Author), Larzer Ziff (Introduction by)
Moby-Dick is Herman Melville's great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul, featuring the timeless characters Ishmael, Ahab, and Queequeg, and presented here in a beautiful Everyman's Library hardcover edition.
A giant of American literature, Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind, but his lyricism, his skill in rendering the minute, the particular, and the local was equally sublime. These qualities are on full display in Moby-Dick, his breathtaking maritime masterpiece of belief, friendship, obsession, and whaling.
Published in the same five-year span as
The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and
Leaves of Grass,
Moby-Dick stands alone as the ultimate achievement in that stunning period
--and in all of American letters.
With an introduction by Larzer Ziff.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Author Biography
HERMAN MELVILLE was born in New York City in 1819. When his father died, he was forced to leave school and find work. After passing through some minor clerical jobs, the eighteen-year-old young man shipped out to sea, first on a short cargo trip, then, at twenty-one, on a three-year South Sea whaling venture. From the experiences accumulated on this voyage would come the material for his early books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), as well as for such masterpieces as Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre (1852), The Piazza Tales (1856) and Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories (posthumous, 1924). Melville died in 1891.
LARZER ZIFF is a research professor of English at Johns Hopkins University who has written extensively on American literary culture.
Number of Pages: 632
Dimensions: 1.38 x 8.31 x 5.26 IN
Publication Date: November 26, 1991
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Moby-Dick, Or, the Whale (English)
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 10.3
Point Value: 42
