Moby Dick A critical Edition Author:Herman Melville The text of Moby-Dick in this volume goes further to recover and present Melville's own final intentions than any other edition has been able to accomplish to date. The editors have identified and corrected scribal and compositional errors in the first American ediction and have emended the American text with manyh readings for the first English... more » edition of The Whale- changes indicated by Melville himself. Both a complete description of textual problems and a full collation of textual variants between the first American and English editions are included. ...« less