Moby-Dick (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

"High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased, soaring speculation, a style as many-coloured as the theme, yet always good, and often admirable; fertile fancy, ingenious construction, playful learning, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime, without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in [MOBY-DICK].Herman Melville is the author of 'Moby-Dick (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)', published 1999 under ISBN 9780393972832 and ISBN 0393972836.