Full Description
When Melville completed Moby-Dick, he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that "I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb." While it took the world some time to appreciate the magnitude of Melville's achievement, Moby-Dick is now widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature. It is, however, long, and students in semester-long courses will often not have a chance to read the novel in its entirety. The Broadview Moby-Dick: A Selection offers a robust sampling of chapters, chosen to give students a thorough initiation into the novel's plot, as well as into the full range of its themes and stylistic experimentation. This edition also includes substantial, clear, and helpful annotations to help students successfully navigate Melville's language and range of references.This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts.
Contents
From Moby-Dick
Chapter 1
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 28
Chapter 32
Chapter 36
Chapter 38
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 64
Chapter 68
Chapter 87
Chapter 89
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 99
Chapter 102
Chapter 128
Chapter 132
Chapter 135
Epilogue
Appendix A: Nineteenth-Century Images of Whales and Whaling
Appendix B: The Story of the Essex
Appendix C: Selection of Melville's Letters to Hawthorne
