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Moby-Dick (Vintage Classics) Kindle Edition

by Herman Melville (Author)

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INCLUDES THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED MOBY-DICK

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.

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Product Details

File Size: 895 KB
Print Length: 597 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1470178192
Publisher: Vintage Digital; Reprint edition (April 9, 2010)
Publication Date: April 27, 2010
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B003GCTQ7M
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545 of 571 people found the following review helpful

This book is gonna make it!

By Adam Roberts on January 18, 2001

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Finishing "Moby Dick" goes up there with my greatest (and few) academic achievements. It was a gruelling read, but---in the end---completely worthwhile.
I've been reading it for 6 months. I started over the summer, during an abroad program in Oxford, and I remember sitting outside reading when one of the professors came over, saw what I was reading, and said: "It's a very strange book, isn't it?"
Looking back, that might be the best way to describe it. The blurb from D.H. Lawrence on the back cover agrees: Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe...[it is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."
Now there are those who will say that the book's middle is unbearable---with its maddeningly detailed accounts of whaling. Part of me agrees. That was the hardest to get through. But, still, even the most dull subject offers Melville an opportunity to show off his writing chops. He's a fantastic writer---his text most resembles that of Shakespeare.
And, like one Shakespeare's characters, Melville sees all the world as a stage.Read more ›

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261 of 272 people found the following review helpful

your understanding might boil down to the quality of the gloss

By Caraculiambro on July 13, 2005

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Unless you are a naval historian or a Melville scholar, you probably won't have a rewarding (or even comprehensible) time with Moby-Dick at this remove unless the edition you're using comes with a good set of footnotes. Here's the skinny on the various editions currently on shelves:

THESE HAVE FOOTNOTES ON THE PAGE ITSELF:

* Charles Feidelson, Jr.'s annotated edition. Unquestionably the most all-around useful edition of Moby-Dick ever printed. Generous and highly useful footnotes right on the page, covering lexical, allusional, and cross-referential items. Two disadvantages: you may at times feel put upon by Feidelson's interlarded interpretations, and the thing is totally out of print. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964. ISBN: 067260311X

* The "Norton critical" edition, edited by Parker and Hayford. The edition most widely employed by scholars. Stingier with the footnotes than Feidelson, but still a good second choice. Many useful essays at the end. The layout of the text is a bit hard on the eye, though. Make sure you get the SECOND edition, from 2001. ISBN: 0393972836

* The "Barnes and Noble Classics" edition. The footnotes for the most part are skimpy and confined to obscure vocabulary, not cultural and literary allusions. ISBN: 1-59308-018-2

THESE HAVE A FOOTNOTES SECTION IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

* The "Oxford World Classics" edition. About 11 pp. at the end. ISBN: 0-19-283385-5

* The "Modern Library" edition. About 13 pp. at the end. ISBN: 0-679-78327-X

* The "Penguin Classics" edition. About 15 pp. of notes at the end by Tom Quirk. ISBN: 0-14-24.3724-7 (This is their fancy hardbound version: see next item.)

* The "Penguin Classics" edition. About 15 pp.Read more ›

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212 of 223 people found the following review helpful

Open your mind

By TJ on March 26, 1999

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Last year I decided to expand my intellectual horizons by reading a series of American literary classics. Moby Dick was the first book on my list. It took me three months to finish this legendary story and, looking back on it now, I must say that it was worth every minute. To others who are considering this effort I say this: buttress your stamina and open your mind. This is not John Grisham or Tom Clancy. You will be reading high literature and you will be required to think. If you do so, Ishmael, Ahab and crew will open a window to some of mankind's most profound questions: Is it better to fight evil or promote virtue? Where is the line between honorable justice and blind vengeance? Do bad things happen because the universe is evil or just indifferent? The true pleasure to be derived from reading this book can be found by closing its pages every so often and reflecting on the questions that it will raise in your mind. A completely different experience than breezing through the latest best-seller, but much more rewarding.
Be aware that Moby Dick is many types of books in one. It is part adventure story, part sermon, part history of whaling, part encyclopedia of whale anatomy, part metaphysical allegory. Expect it to change periodically as you move through it, be receptive to each part, and don't try to compartmentalize it as any one particular type of work.

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150 of 158 people found the following review helpful

Not complete

By TonyJF on December 28, 2010

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I haven't finished reading the entire book, so I can't comment on the whole thing. But, there is at least one whole section omitted from this version: In the chapter "The Sermon", the hymn sung by the sailors is missing. While this omission does not necessarily detract from the story in a significant way, I like a "classic" such as this one to be complete.

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Great Story- too bad the BOOK sucked.

The story- everyone knows it, and everyone takes away from it what their own lives and hearts reveal to them. And yes- Moby Dick is a GREAT story. So- enough of that. Read more

Published 1 day ago by R. A. Del Rossi

Reads well on a kindle.

Said color illustrated, but there are barely any pictures. Still a good read for an e-book, although I am not sure if it is an abridged version because there are not nearly as... Read more

Published 1 day ago by Rex

Five Stars

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Five Stars

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Published 2 days ago by kmccoy

Five Stars

Great story!

Published 4 days ago by Jim Lane

Big, Big, Big

I read Moby-Dick several times in college almost forty years ago. Now I'm taking a night class and reading it with life experience of forty years. Read more

Published 4 days ago by Randall L. Wilson

A Solid Edition of a Masterpiece

A carefully edited text and a thoughtful selection from mountains of secondary materials make this the best student edition of Moby-Dick available. Read more

Published 6 days ago by William Doreski

dive into a great book and loose yourself in a bygone adventure that...

fourth time I read the book. I like it better each read. This is an amazingly deep and interesting story with some really amazing developments. Read more

Published 8 days ago by DJ

Five Stars

A classic!!

Published 14 days ago by John H. Norton

Four Stars

Quite a good read, even when published in Old High English.

Published 18 days ago by Kenneth K. Kalish

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