TY - BOOK AU - Melville,Herman AU - Hayford,Harrison AU - Parker,Hershel TI - Moby-Dick / T2 - A Norton critical edition SN - 0393972836 (pbk.) U1 - 813.3/ M531m 22 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Norton KW - Melville, Herman. KW - Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Whaling KW - Whales KW - Adventure stories KW - gsafd KW - Epic literature KW - Sea stories KW - lcsh KW - Allegories N1 - "An authoritative text before Moby Dick: international controversy, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, reviews of Moby-Dick, criticism."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 725-726); ENG N2 - "Moby Dick (1851) is an epic tale of the conflict between man and his fate. Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to destroy the great white whale that tore off his leg leads the Pequod and its crew to disaster. Melville's extraordinary narrative defies c1assification: it teems with ideas and imagery and the passion of its author."--BOOK JACKET ER -