Moby-Dick

The iconic story of a ship captain's obsessive hunt for a terrible white whale, Moby-Dick is universally regarded as one of the most influential novels of the American Renaissance era. The Norton Library edition features the text of the first U.S. (1851) edition, with endnotes that clarify obscure terms and references. An introduction by Jeffrey Insko offers the contemporary reader a number of ways into this difficult and majestic novel.