Moby-Dick (Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed., Paperback)

Herman Melville

Overview

This Norton Critical Edition presents Melville’s epic of pursuit on the high seas in an authoritative text accompanied by contextual and critical essays. Readers gain insight into 19th-century whaling, maritime law, and the novel’s reception history. The edition balances the original narrative with modern scholarship, making it suitable for coursework and independent study.

Who it's for

• University literature courses on American Romanticism
• Students needing annotated and contextual sources
• General readers seeking a deeper understanding of the novel

Key features

• Third edition with updated critical essays
• Extensive contextual documents on whaling and 19th-century reviews
• Chronology of Melville’s life and times
• Select bibliography for further research