Herman Melville’s Moby Dick

One of the masterpieces of American fiction, Moby-Dick remains a classic in the world’s literature of the sea. The characters in this powerful tale continue to haunt us, including Captain Ahab, Starbuck, Ishmael, and the rest of the crew.

The title, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Herman Melville, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.