"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world, closing up its mystery and its tortured symbolism.
Reynolds, from which Melville was partly inspired..
This unexpurgated edition also includes a real life account of Mocha Dick by Jeremiah N.
Lawrence in his essay on Moby Dick included in this edition.
It is an epic of the sea such as no man has equaled; and it is a book of exoteric symbolism of profound significance," so says the poet D.
H. "One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world, closing up its mystery and its tortured symbolism