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Moby Dick - "2nd Edition".

submitted by WittyUserName to books 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 15:11:36 ago (+8/-0)     (files.catbox.moe)

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The Oxford University Press is including some additions to the classic novel for today's sensitive youth.

New introduction focuses on the novel's elasticity and continued relevance for twenty-first-century readers, with attention to its queerness and its meditations on race, power, and disability

Which, as usual, is an excuse for people not involved with the creation of a work to talk about themselves.

Links (Apologies for the lack of archive. Archive's being glacially slow again.):

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/moby-dick-9780198853695?cc=us&lang=en - Oxford University Press website.

https://www.hesterblum.com/about - The editor's bio.


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[ - ] ilikeskittles 3 points 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 16:55:09 ago (+3/-0)

Nothing wrong with the original.

[ - ] Irelandlost 0 points 3.1 yearsMar 28, 2022 07:17:37 ago (+0/-0)

Spends a bit too much time describing what a whale looks like for my tastes. I get that people back then were less likely to have seen a whale than modern communication methods allow today, but surely a picture or whale with a horse-cart or something alongside for perspective would’ve sufficed rather than spending half the book describing the ‘leviathan’ (Christ, that word is overused in the book too) and its bulk.

[ - ] ilikeskittles 0 points 3.1 yearsMar 28, 2022 12:08:25 ago (+0/-0)

It's an original. It is what it is. Nobody can change it other than the original author. If you don't like it that's fine. But it is what it is.

[ - ] Stonkmar 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 5, 2022 13:39:28 ago (+0/-0)

I agree. Also, before I read the book I assumed Captain Ahab was a real badass ballbreaker. Not so much. Wolf Larson from The Sea-wolf is more along the lines of what I thought Ahab was supposed to be.

[ - ] lord_nougat 2 points 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 15:39:31 ago (+2/-0)

Oh cool, my old copy will become so much more sought after!

[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 20:16:22 ago (+1/-0)*

We need a list of all the revised classic literature so we can purchase all the original editions and unadulterated copies stat.

[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 9, 2022 14:09:05 ago (+0/-0)

gay.

each generation will "remake classics" eh?

[ - ] noonefromnowhere 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 9, 2022 07:08:28 ago (+0/-0)

Still not going to read it. Heard he got paid by the word and the book shows it. Not interested in reading excessively padded prose.

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 17:57:56 ago (+0/-0)

Hey OP; catbox is down can you upload to another site?

[ - ] WittyUserName [op] 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 22:39:08 ago (+0/-0)

It seems to be back up. Are you still having trouble seeing it?

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 22:52:51 ago (+0/-0)

Now it's working....

[ - ] xmasskull 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 8, 2022 15:17:02 ago (+0/-0)

By: Melville-...-Blum..???hummm?