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| Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America) | 
| Authors: Herman Melville, George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher: Library of America
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 78490
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1436
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.8
ISBN: 0940450097
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780940450097
ASIN: 0940450097
Publication Date: April 15, 1983
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
"Moby-Dick," Melville's masterpiece, is one of the great epics in all of literature. Ahab's idolatrous hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, the sublime indifference of nature, and the grimy physical details of whale-oil extraction provide a reflective counterpoint. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or as a critical inquiry into the sinister effects of reducing life to symbols, "Moby-Dick" also offers colorful and comic glimpses of life aboard a whaling ship. This second volume of Melville's complete prose in The Library of America also includes two other stories of the sea: "Redburn," which relates a young man's initiation into the sailor's life, and "White-Jacket," a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy. All three are presented in the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry texts.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Moby-Dick, as my father once said, is one of the greatest novels ever written November 16, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Melville is one of the greatest American authors ever, and Moby-Dick alone is worth the price for this book. When I read the book myself in american literature, I was amazed at the extensive detail taken into the culture of whaling, a culture that was in its twilight days; it also gave us more information about whales that some think is too much, but whatever. Even though I didn't completely understand the book (but so did everything I read in high school), I have the desire to read it again.
Brilliant Presages of Moby-Dick February 17, 2000
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
While White-Jacket seems to have little overall relation to Melville's other works in the sense that it appears as a self-contained, highly enjoyable novel, Redburn is one of those central turning points in this great writer's life that makes it extraordinarily important. Forget "adventure" or "romance." This is a novel of psychological destruction, a disasterous novel of "growing up" that displays the shattering of a young mind and the destruction of "young America." Any reader who loves Moby-Dick should devour Redburn again and again as one of Melville's most important works.
 The content was very exciting. October 1, 1997
7 out of 20 found this review helpful
Complicated to absorb into your mind as you read along, due to the expert writing of this this material. I had to reread just about everything at least 5 times for it to make any sense at all. I'm in the 9th grade. Daniel Barclay-son of Paul
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