Talk:Moby-Dick
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Bless you for properly hyphenating Moby-Dick. Dpbsmith 02:35, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
My copy of Moby Dick has no hyphens in the title, or in any reference to the whale. I can't find a text that does. Does this relate to the original or something? Someone please explain.
Arcturus 19:06, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- According to http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/Moby-Dick/amlit.sightings.html, the whale is Moby Dick and the book Moby-Dick. My copy (Penguin Classics) gets it right. A facsimile of the title page of the first edition (New York, 1851) shows a hyphen. -- Heron 19:51, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (a British book, of course) says that the title Moby-Dick should have a hyphen. (Somebody recently disputed this by reverting my edit.) I would be interested to know if there is an equivalent book for USian editors, and what it says on the subject. -- Heron 16:50, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
My edition of Moby-Dick has a hyphen in both the title and the name. Ionesco 13:19, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"when God granted her a son, Isaac, Ishmael and his mother were turned out of Abraham's household"
I'm not going to edit the page, not having read Moby-Dick, but the above seems to imply that Ishmael was turned out as soon as, and as a result of, Issac's birth. This is not accurate - see Ishmael and Ishmael (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=277&letter=I) for more detail.
Was this article written by someone who read the annotated version of the novel? It is incredibly simplistic and its critical theory is high school quality. [[User:JimmyJimJam|JimmyjimJam 12:19 22 Feb 2005
Author of the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
The text states, "The story was recounted by the survivor Thomas Nickerson in his Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex."
The account mentioned was penned by Owen Chase. Nickerson's account was not published until after Moby-Dick was written (see Nathaniel Philbrick's "In the Heart of the Sea" or the Wikipedia link for the whaleship Essex).
Mark