Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

Frank Jewett Mather Jr. favorable

“Of all the books which in this century have been produced by the brain of man, the most wonderful is Moby-Dick. ”

— 1919 — quoting an unidentified admirer

Section: The Melville Revival

Date: January 1, 1919

The annotated edition of Moby-Dick gives you everything you need to finally get Melville's masterpiece:

✅ Complete, unabridged text — every word of the original 1851 edition
✅ Hundreds of explanatory footnotes — no more Googling every other page
✅ Historical context — the Essex disaster, Nantucket whaling, Melville's life
✅ Literary analysis — chapter-by-chapter commentary on themes and symbols
✅ Victorian vocabulary — obsolete words and nautical terms defined inline
✅ Biblical & literary references — every allusion traced to its source