Moby-Dick is Herman Melville’s great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul, featuring the timeless characters Ishmael, Ahab, and Queequeg, and presented here in a beautiful Everyman’s Library hardcover edition. A giant of American literature, Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind, but his lyricism, his skill in rendering the minute, the particular, and the local was equally sublime. These qualities are on full display in Moby-Dick, his breathtaking maritime masterpiece of belief, friendship, obsession, and whaling. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, Moby-Dick stands alone as the ultimate achievement in that stunning period—and in all of American letters. With an introduction by Larzer Ziff. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

本作は単なる海洋冒険譚を超え、狂気と神性、人間の実存を問う壮大な宇宙的叙事詩です。メルヴィルの重厚な文体は、エイハブ船長の執念を英雄的悲劇へと昇華させ、読者を深淵なる思索へ引きずり込みます。微細な描写と比喩が織りなす圧倒的な熱量は、正にアメリカ文学の金字塔です。 映像作品が追撃の迫力を描く一方で、原作は「思考の彷徨」という贅沢な深みを与えます。膨大な鯨の知識や独白は、文字でしか到達できない精神的冒険です。映像のスペクタクルと、書物の内省的な深淵。この二つを往還することで、白鯨という不可解な真理を多層的に捉える至高の体験が完結するのです。