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Mobydick A Lit Annotated Edition 1st Edition Herman Melville by Herman Melville 9781716414084, 1716414083 instant download after payment.
Biography
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. Called to the sea
after the death of his father, Melville felt he was unable to live up to the
family name, and exiled himself on his first South Sea whaling venture
at age twenty-one. Melville wroteTypee, and laterOomoo, about his ex-
periences among the cannibals which shocked contemporary men who
disallowed their wives and daughters to read them. Enthralled by the
exotic tales, the American public read these works voraciously, unde-
terred by the commands of their patriarchs.Moby-Dickfailed to attract
any critical acclaim however, and it was not until the 1920s that a single
person liked the book, which was long after his death in 1891. Loosely
based off of a real albino sperm whale, Mocha Dick, the story ofMoby-
Dickfollows the crew of the Pequod, a ship based off of the real ship
Essex and its fateful event of 1820. Melville made several last minute
changes to the book following his meeting with Nathaniel Hawthorne in
1850. After pestering the man for weeks, Hawthorne finally gave in and
agreed to meet with the inferior writer. Melville trapped Hawthorne at
his homestead for two weeks, before finally letting Hawthorne return
home. From this encounter Melville gleaned a great many ideas for his
book, and Ishmael’s first encounter with Queequeg is loosely based off
of this event. The dedication that Melville gave his book is not an apol-
ogy to Hawthorne, as may critics suggest, but rather an oblivious ode
to the man.
Called by Harold Bloom a “two-bookmark monstrosity,” this edi-
tion ofMoby-Dick, annotated by an internet society of NEETs, con-
tains the complete and unabridged text of the novel (thanks to Project
Gutenberg), extensive footnotes, capricious endnotes for several chap-
ters that delve into relevant discourse, and modern critical essays (in-
cluding one by Prussia, the editor-in-chief of the 2020 pandemic hit,The
Coronameron). Bloom spoke correctly, and a second bookmark is a boon
to enjoying this text fully.
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