Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Moby dick [large print edition]: the complete & unabridged classic edition, paperback/summit classic press

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This premium quality large print edition contains the unabridged original classic version of Moby Dick in a large 7.

69 format, printed on heavyweight 60# bright white paper, with a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design.

Also included is an original introductory author biography and essay discussing the life and work of Herman Melville and the history and significance of Moby Dick, to provide the modern reader with useful background information, enhancing the enjoyment of this classic novel.

Herman Melville is known today primarily for his iconic whaling novel, Moby Dick (1851), the story of the Captain Ahab's hunt for the great white whale, which appears on most lists of greatest books ever written and is considered an essential part of the Western Canon.

Ironically, when the novel was published it was a monumental flop and signaled the end of Melvilles's career as a novelist.

One theory is that the omission of the epilogue from the first printing left the book open to ridicule as a first-person narrative in which the narrator did not survive to tell the tale.

He published several more novels, all without success, and in 1866 he became a New York customs inspector, all but forgotten for the next fifty years.

With the modernist movement Moby Dick came to be recognized as a literary classic.

What once were considered serious flaws came to be viewed as literary innovations, and Moby Dick went from being criticized as undisciplined and poorly crafted to being hailed as ahead of its time and visionary.

For the modern reader, the complex analytical theories behind Moby Dick often interfere with the enjoyment of the novel for its own sake.

At face value, Moby Dick is an interesting tale, rich with diverse characters and evocative themes like class and social status, the nature of good and evil, isolation, community, the existence of God, obsession and human perception.

A vivid depiction of life aboard ship in the nineteenth century, i.