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>>7191545
It's perhaps the best annotated edition of Moby-Dick you will find.

For Melville's short stories, however, I suggest the Oxford World's Classics, mainly because of the number of stories (you get those in the Norton edition plus 5-6 more).

>>7191584
Thanks, anon. I'll look into that too.

>>7191545
I got some old Yale edition from the 50s. I like it.

Norton is probably very good.

>>7191545
I have that copy and just finished it. I think it's just what you're looking for. It includes some interesting essays and critiques at the end, too. Highly recommend it.

>>7191545
Bad ass cover.

Do I need an annotated version to fully understand Moby Dick?

>>7193811
One reads a scholarly edition to "fully" understand a book. Of course, the reader's interpretation is more important, and notes and essays are there to help develop a thorough interpretaition rather than to impose it.

If you read Moby-Dick carefully and analytically, you fill grasp and understand the meaning of the book, even if you don't have notes nor read essays. But if you want a "better" understanding of the book, I would recommend an scholarly edition, like Norton's or even Oxford's.

>>7191545
I got the California/Arion Press edition and it's huge and has no footnotes, so don't get that one.

some Amazon autist ranked all the editions for footnotes, binding, illustrations, maps, etc. Find that on Google

moby dick isn't a book you need to have explained to you
just get an unabridged text and work your way through it
seriously

>>7191545
I dunno what kinda annotations yer lookin for, but this one has a lot of them in the back, plus notes on all the differences between the american and english editions and why the differences are there