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7038062 No.7038062 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best edition of Moby Dick?

>> No.7038075

I had this same question like a month ago. Ended up just buying a copy off of amazon.ca (which has shit selection) and it ended up being good so far.

I think the only thing that matters is the text. The standard version is apparently the Northwestern-Newberry, and thats what my version was.

>> No.7038076

mine lmao

>> No.7038079

they're all the same; its not a translation; its all the same english prose.

>> No.7038084

>>7038075
Same poster. To add onto this any differences you see in the British and American publication page lengths are probably just font size and page size and all that. Also since the British version is censored no one uses that one.

Just roll with a book that has the size of font you want and proper book size in terms of actual dimensions.

>> No.7038095

The real question is: What is the worst edition of Moby Dick?

>> No.7038098

>>7038095
Probably the British censored version.

>> No.7038100

>>7038062
norton critical edition has annotations and a couple analysis essays at the end

>> No.7038107

>>7038100
>analysis essays
So pleb bloat?

>> No.7038111
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>>7038095
This one, probably.

>> No.7038116

>>7038111
I read it.

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7038118

the cheapest one with the jankiest cover you can find at your local used bookstore

this one was like $2 I think and I hate to tape the cover back on halfway through

>> No.7038128

>>7038107
The Norton Critical Editions of literature usually have really good essays by either other well respected novelists or leading academic authorities.

>> No.7038130

>>7038062
I couldn't find a hardcover in a store that wasn't garbage so I got the Easton Press edition for less than $20 on ebay. It looks and feels great and has all the illustrations. Normally I wouldn't bother but for a book ima read again and again I think the Easton is the best for the money.

>> No.7038159

Second Norton Critical Edition
/thread

>>7038107
They are contemporary, so you can see how people reacted to Moby Dick at the time. Some of the reviews are very negative.
The footnotes in the actual text are useful too.

>> No.7038161

What about the Franklin Library 1979/1981(?) edition? It has gold-sided pages, is 527 pages in length, and has 19th century whaling prints with descriptions.

>> No.7038333

norton critical, second edition
it's not necessarily the best but it's the most easily acquired

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All 21 hours motherfucker

>> No.7038596

University of California Press version, based on the Arion edition.

>> No.7039401

>>7038371
That narrator's voice is so good.

>> No.7039410

>>7039401
yeah I agree, he did a really good job, even with the more difficult parts like the accents. Was interesting I thought, it turns out that the cetology part was actually important, since later on you have to know what the difference between a sperm whale, a razorfin, a right whale, etc.

On a side note, have you read gravity's rainbow? I'm thinking of reading it after I finish moby dick, I'm not sure how much more involved it is than moby dick, or if its more of a committment, etc. Also I'm a huge fan of romanticism, and I know it's postmodern so I have my doubts