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Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:06:43 2021 No.19647192 [Reply] [Original]

Which edition of Moby Dick should I get ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:07:48 2021 No.19647198 the one were ismail doesnt get fucked in the ass

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:08:43 2021 No.19647203 can americans still read "moby dick" as melville wrote it or do they have to read "modernized" versions?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:15:05 2021 No.19647240 File: 31 KB, 327x500, E916EADA-6E9C-4E09-A6EF-005E63287201.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19647203 The only version in available in America is the Great Illustrated Classics version.

Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:15:14 2021 No.19647242

>>19647203
They are abridged and simplified versions but most editions seem to have the integral text. Even then most of them seem pretty bad when I see how poor the annotations are or the font/size used. That's why I'm asking if there's any edition everyone commonly agrees is good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:17:01 2021 No.19647259 >>19647242 Norton Critical. >but muh Bible-thin paper Grow a pair.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:17:54 2021 No.19647267 >>19647242 try to get a copy printed before 1990 in a second hand store or something. thats what i do when i rememeber that modern editions of old books suck ass

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:30:51 2021 No.19647332 >>19647259 >not only bible-thin paper, but literally the pseud edition no thanks

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:33:35 2021 No.19647344 >>19647192 The paperback one by Library of America has an intro by Edward Said, so that's cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:36:35 2021 No.19647356 >>19647344 >caring about introductions ever

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:37:54 2021 No.19647363 >>19647356 You don't?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:40:22 2021 No.19647375 >>19647363 I don't care about a stranger telling me how to feel about a stranger.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:41:40 2021 No.19647381 the /lit/ edition

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:44:40 2021 No.19647394 >>19647332 >pseud edition Only pseud here is you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:44:42 2021 No.19647395 >>19647381 Is it actually funny and clever or is it a reddit meme?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:45:32 2021 No.19647401 File: 188 KB, 620x852, Kent_Moby_Dick37-620x852.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19647192 Modern Library Giant edition with illustrations by Rockwell Kent

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 17:46:36 2021 No.19647405 >>19647395 it's funny

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 20:01:20 2021 No.19648123 Sparknotes

Anonymous Tue Dec 28 20:06:01 2021 No.19648152
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So which is the correct version, you faggots? I swear, this board will never make me feel like I’m reading the correct edition/translation of anything. Why does literature have to be like this?

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 20:08:24 2021 No.19648166 >>19648152 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm There's only one version of Moby-Dick, retard. Most books are like this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 20:33:29 2021 No.19648280 >>19648161 Where do I buy?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 20:34:25 2021 No.19648285 >>19648161 I'll take 5.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 20:35:52 2021 No.19648297 File: 378 KB, 1500x2000, 723_1 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19647192 The Random House 1930 edition. Only $1200.

Anonymous Tue Dec 28 22:22:04 2021 No.19648839

>>19648166
There isn't. If you actually look at the first two editions - American and British - you'll see vast differences. The British one lacked the final chapter entirely, and it had a different title - "The Whale".

>>19647192
As others have said, Norton. Has both detailed footnotes and appendix material - criticism from Melville's time to today, letters, biographic material, etc. Not something to read all the way through, but biting into it from time to time is always interesting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 28 22:29:04 2021 No.19648870 Norton Critical

Anonymous Tue Dec 28 22:36:21 2021 No.19648900

>>19648839
The first British edition hasn't been in print for over one hundred years, you pedantic moron. For all intents and purposes there's only one version of the text of Moby-Dick and OP should stop wasting his time worrying about which edition to buy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 29 00:52:29 2021 No.19649424 >>19648161 Why don't you send me one as a late Christmas present?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 29 08:55:48 2021 No.19650794 >>19647192 The Northwestern-Newberry Edition

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 29 09:45:52 2021 No.19650958 >>19648280 https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html?page=1&pageSize=4 >>19649424 Sorry anon but I mailed one to an anon one time as a gift and they never thanked me

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 29 09:52:42 2021 No.19651003 >>19648297 >only a third of my paycheck I'll take it

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