Moby Dick, Or The Whale: The Good Parts

When this book was published in 1851, reading for pleasure was still a fairly new idea. There were no televisions, no movies, no mp3 players, no internet and no cell phones. If you bought a book to read for pleasure there'd better be a lot in it for your Yankee dollar. Melville knew his audience and so this book was written for the average reader of the mid-19th century. If he were publishing this book today he would have written the book for us 21st century people and wouldn't have include...