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Moby-Dick
Cover mockup.
Moby-Dick
Ishmael ships out of Nantucket on the whaler Pequod, whose captain has lost a leg to a white whale and means to kill it.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 10–12
- First published
- 1851
- This edition
- Complete novel with the Epilogue; the opening Etymology and Extracts are omitted.
- Pages
- 690
- Prompts
- 136, one at the close of each chapter
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
“This is my substitute for pistol and ball,” Ishmael says, a sentence after owning the urge to knock people’s hats off in the street. How seriously should we take the gloom he confesses so lightly? Put a line in the margin wherever the joking voice drops, if it ever does.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages690
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts136, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 10–12