Moby Dick /
Herman Melville; Hershel Parker.
- third edition
- 706 pages ; 24 cm.
"The text of Moby-Dick in the volume is from The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle and published by Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, with the permission of the publishers. It is an approved text of the Modern Language Association of America."
One of the most widely-read and respected books in all American literature, Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter.