Moby-Dick, English edition - or, The Whale

The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk.
'Call me Ishmael.'
So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an paean to whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod, from stern, Quaker First Mate Starbuck, to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg, are a vision of the world in microcosm, the pinnacle of Melville's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is a profound, poetic inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
Based on the Northwestern University Press edition, this Penguin Classics edition includes a critical introduction by Andrew Delbanco, as well as valuable explanatory notes, maps, illustrations and a glossary of nautical terms.

Herman Melville is now regarded as one of America's greatest novelists. Much of the material for his novels was drawn from his own experience as a seaman aboard whaling ships. He wrote his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851, and died in 1891.

If you enjoyed Moby-Dick, you may like Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, also available in Penguin Classics.

'After reading Moby-Dick, you will have enhanced your sense of wonder, you will have increased the size of your universe'
E. M. Forster

'One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world ... It moves awe in the soul'
D. H. Lawrence

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

IntroductionSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextEtymologyExtractsMoby DickLoomingsThe Carpet BagThe Spouter-InnThe CounterpaneBreakfastThe StreetThe ChapelThe PulpitThe SermonA Bosom FriendNightgownBiographicalWheelbarrowNantucketChowderThe ShipThe RamadanHis MarkThe ProphetAll AstirGoing AboardMerry ChristmasThe Lee ShoreThe AdvocatePostscriptKnights and SquiresKnights and SquiresAhabEnter Ahab; to him, StubbThe PipeQueen MabCetologyThe SpecksynderThe Cabin TableThe Mast-HeadThe Quarter-Deck Ahab and allSunsetDuskFirst Night-WatchForecastle---MidnightMoby DickThe Whiteness of the WhaleHark!The ChartThe AffidavitSurmisesThe Mat-MakerThe First LoweringThe HyenaAhab's Boat and Crew---FedallahThe Spirit-SpoutThe Pequod meets the AlbatrossThe GamThe Town Ho's StoryMonstrous Pictures of WhalesLess Erroneous Pictures of WhalesOf Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c.BritSquidThe LineStubb kills a WhaleThe DartThe CrotchStubb's SupperThe Whale as a DishThe Shark MassacreCutting InThe BlanketThe FuneralThe SphynxThe Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her StoryThe Monkey-ropeStubb & Flask kill a Right WhaleThe Sperm Whale's HeadThe Right Whale's HeadThe Battering-RamThe Great Heidelburgh TunCistern and BucketsThe PrairieThe NutThe Pequod meets the VirginThe Honor and Glory of WhalingJonah Historically RegardedPitchpolingThe FountainThe TailThe Grand ArmadaSchools & SchoolmastersFast Fish and Loose FishHeads or TailsThe Pequod meets the Rose BudAmbergrisThe CastawayA Squeeze of the HandThe CassockThe Try-WorksThe LampStowing Down & Clearing UpThe DoubloonThe Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of LondonThe DecanterA Bower in the ArsacidesMeasurement of the Whale's SkeletonThe Fossil WhaleDoes the Whale Diminish?Ahab's LegThe CarpenterThe Deck Ahab and the CarpenterThe Cabin Ahab and StarbuckQueequeg in his CoffinThe PacificThe BlacksmithThe ForgeThe GilderThe Pequod meets the BachelorThe Dying WhaleThe Whale-WatchThe QuadrantThe CandlesThe DeckMidnight, on the ForecastleMidnight, AloftThe MusketThe NeedleThe Log and LineThe Life-BuoyAhab and the CarpenterThe Pequod meets the RachelThe Cabin Ahab and PipThe HatThe Pequod meets the DelightThe SymphonyThe Chase First DayThe Chase Second DayThe Chase Third DayEpilogueList of Textual EmendationsExplanatory NotesGlossary of Nautical TermsMaps and Illustrations