Moby–Dick 3e: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

Font size incredible small, impossible to read with any comfort. I wonder who was the lunatic responsible for these editions. He may also sell magnifiers. You should not buy it, you will regret it

Nada como uma leitura original, em seu tempo e maravilhoso entender a evolução deste livro, que super incentiva a leitura.

Shipping took a while; might be a combination of factors such as distance and/or covid-19 strain on the mail system.Book is really nice! Great to have a ton of supplementary material all in the same book. I recommend this edition for people who want to learn all those cool extra details and essays about the classics without going through a whole English course on it!

This edition of Moby Dick is supposed to be great, but Norton Critical offers a sad edition of this great classic.The printing causes eye strain for me and the paper is so thin that I can read words from a page or two behind the page I’m currently reading.Seriously, consider purchasing Moby Dick from a different publisher.

Ótimo

THE CRITICAL EDITIONAs Melville scholar Hershel Parker says, "[f]or anyone who wants to know Herman Melville and 'Moby-Dick,' this third Norton Critical Edition is the fullest storehouse of factual riches, and, just as important, of incitements to the appreciative imagination" (xv).Edited by Parker, the NCE3 includes:1) a preface and several essays by Parker,2) annotation in the form of footnotes to the text,3) a helpful glossary of nautical terms,4) 158 pages of "Contexts" for the author and the novel, and5) 128 pages of "Criticism," with reviews and assessments from 1851, to the 1920s revival, to today.THE READING COPYEverything above makes the NCE3 well worth reading if you are seriously interested in "Moby-Dick." Of course if used for a class, it may be mandatory for instructors and students. However, as a reading copy of the novel it is not ideal.The book is 706 pages, and of that only 410 pages are the text of the novel. The edition I recently read, the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, is 625 pages long. So this text is only two thirds as long, and the typeface is only two thirds as large. Of course having the annotation handy as you read is a plus.On balance I would recommend another edition for a reading copy, and the NCE3 as a supplement.