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🇬🇧 Illustrated London News favorable
“Herman Melville's last and best and most wildly imaginative story, 'The Whale.' ”
— Angus Bethune Reach, November 1, 1851
Section: British Reception
Date: November 1, 1851
Moby-Dick Annotated Edition

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The annotated edition of Moby-Dick gives you everything you need to finally get Melville's masterpiece:

  • Complete, unabridged text — every word of the original 1851 edition
  • Hundreds of explanatory footnotes — no more Googling every other page
  • Historical context — the Essex disaster, Nantucket whaling, Melville's life
  • Literary analysis — chapter-by-chapter commentary on themes and symbols
  • Victorian vocabulary — obsolete words and nautical terms defined inline
  • Biblical & literary references — every allusion traced to its source

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