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Washington (DC) National Intelligencer
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“A prose Epic on Whaling... In whatever light it may be viewed, no one can deny it to be the production of a man of genius. The descriptive powers of Mr. Melville are unrivalled... His delineation of character is actually Shakespearean... We close this ingenious romance, which for variety of incident and vigor of style can scarcely be exceeded.
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— James C. Welling, December 16, 1851
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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