Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Moby Dick, or, the whale. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Herman Melville[...]
In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, she shows that this "aesthetics of the material text," central both to Melv[...]
"Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales," by Herman Melville, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of th[...]
Owing to the decline of his contemporary fame and to decades of posthumous neglect, Herman Melville remains enigmatic to readers despite his status as one of AmericaAEs most securely canonical authors. Born into patrician wealth but plunged into poverty as a child, in 1840 he signed aboard the whale[...]