Moby-Dick

Second Edition

Herman Melville
Edited by Hester Blum

Oxford World's Classics

• Edited by a leading Melville scholar, past president of the Herman Melville Society, and a participant in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship and the sister ship to the Acushnet, in which Melville sailed
• Introduction highlights a little-known annotation in Hawthorne's copy of Moby-Dick
• An edition for the twenty-first century, one that recognizes that each generation of readers will remake classic novels anew
• Introduces readers to the experience of reading the book, interpretative questions, and its place in the history of the American novel

New to this Edition:

• Updated explanatory notes reflect the increased access to information that contemporary readers have
• New introduction focuses on the novel's elasticity and continued relevance for twenty-first-century readers, with attention to its queerness and its meditations on race, power, and disability

Moby-Dick

Second Edition

Herman Melville
Edited by Hester Blum

Oxford World's Classics

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Moby-Dick

Second Edition

Herman Melville
Edited by Hester Blum

Oxford World's Classics

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Moby-Dick

Second Edition

Herman Melville
Edited by Hester Blum

Oxford World's Classics

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Moby-Dick

Second Edition

Herman Melville
Edited by Hester Blum

Oxford World's Classics

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Weird Moby-Dick

There are a lot of peculiar phrases in Moby-Dick. My new introduction to the second Oxford World's Classics edition of Herman Melville's novel highlights the startling weirdness of the book, both in its literary form and its language.

Posted on December 5, 2022

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Moby-Dick is the answer. What is the question?

In December 2021, I was a contestant on the popular American quiz show Jeopardy! Every Jeopardy! game has a brief segment in which contestants share anecdotes about themselves, and I used my time to proselytize reading Moby-Dick. I talked about my work on the new Oxford World's Classics edition of the novel, and emphasized that Melville's novel is unexpectedly weird, moving, and hilarious despite its monumental reputation.

Posted on June 21, 2022

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