Moby-Dick As Doubloon; Essays and Extracts, 1851-1970.

by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford

Genres: Literary Criticism, American, Collections

388 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1970

About the author

Hershel Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, the General Editor for the final two volumes of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, and the author of several books, including Melville: The Making of the Poet, Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative, and Herman Melville: A Biography, a finalist in 1997 for the Pulitzer Prize.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great resource for Melville geeks and those interested in the changing perceptions of Moby Dick through the years. Turns out not everyone likes it! Sometimes, even those who love it don't really like much about it, but some singular aspect of the novel that exists nowhere else in literature catches their fancy, and those reviews are often the most telling and funny. Moby Dick is a weird book, after all, which will tax your patience, and it's in desperate need of editing; and here you can find the whole spectrum of opinions about it, starting with reviews from the day it was published and covering all manner of opinion pieces and academic papers until the year 1970, when this particular volume came out.