{"product_id":"moby-dick-paperback-4","title":"Moby-Dick - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHester Blum\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--\u0026amp; to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship Pequod's other \"meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways\", is beguiled into joining Captain Ahab in his vengeful pursuit of the white whale that \"dismasted\" him. But along the way, Ishmael takes the reader along many a detour into variegated ways of knowing. In a tone \"strangely compounded of fun and fury\", \u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e brings outlandish curiosity to bear on the multitudinous, oceanic scale of our diverse world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHester Blum\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and \u003cem\u003eThe News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), as well as\u003cbr\u003eseveral edited volumes. Blum is past president of the Herman Melville Society, and her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She participated in the 38th Voyage of the \u003cem\u003eCharles W. Morgan\u003c\/em\u003e, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship\u003cbr\u003eand the sister ship to the \u003cem\u003eAcushnet\u003c\/em\u003e, in which Melville sailed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 7.75 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759461630240,"sku":"9780198853695","price":10.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/319cf88c7a65ad23f175b697e9a58cf0.webp?v=1780153427","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/moby-dick-paperback-4","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}