I finally finished Moby Dick! And let me tell you, it is hardly about Ahab and the Leviathan. Only about 200 pages out of 521 are about the three masted whaler, the Pequod. It is full of older American language, detailed sailing jargon, old salts, and beautiful descriptions and musings about the sea.
My copy had a lot of contemporary reviews of the book. I learned that some reviewers at the time hated the structure of the story. There are a great many digressions in the book as I have mentioned. One British writer gave it a pretty scathing review. Melville did call the British Whale Fishery somewhat less robust that the American Whale Fishery.
My copy had a lot of contemporary reviews of the book. I learned that some reviewers at the time hated the structure of the story. There are a great many digressions in the book as I have mentioned. One British writer gave it a pretty scathing review. Melville did call the British Whale Fishery somewhat less robust that the American Whale Fishery.
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