Best edition of Moby Dick? I want good footnotes (or end notes) and illustrations.
I don't necessarily want the edition with the most bloat, just one where I won't need to set down the book and start googling shit.
>>8120801
>illustrations
cmon bruh.
Hardcover, black leather bound Folio Society edition w/ supplementary commentary by Harold Bloom.
>>8120835
i mean like small pictures of maritime gear, or diagrams of whales. im sure most readers aren't immediately aware of what a sextant is.
>>8120801
the Norton edition. you'll thank me later
>>8120845
You're actually paying $100 to read harold bloom not moby dick.
some e-book edition with a commentary
>>8120845
If I was a rich bastard I'd buy myself some folio society books but spending $100 on a book that you could buy in paperback for $2 and in hardcover for probably $10-15 is pretty retarded
I think illustrations in Moby Dick could have been a lot of fun if they were by Melville himself, but I'm not sure illustrations created today would give the same feeling as reading a scientific journal or diary of the pre-photographic age
