the ship there was a pitch of the boiling oil, which seemed all eagerness to leap into their faces. The largest of Melville's revisions is the addition to the English edition of a 139-word footnote in Chapter 87 explaining the word "gally". 85 In addition, Dana had experienced how incomparable Melville was in dramatic story telling when he met him in Boston, so perhaps "his 'suggestion' was that Melville do a book that captured that gift". The transformation of "Mocha" to "Moby however, presents a greater mystery. He has not only deftly avoided their dangers, but made them an element of great power. Next morning, the ship meets in another truncated gam with the Rachel, commanded by Captain Gardiner from Nantucket.

' Moby-Dick : Work of Art.' Reprinted in Parker and Hayford (2001). First mate Owen Chase, one of eight survivors, recorded the events in his 1821 Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. Bentley recovered only half on the 150 he advanced Melville, whose share from actual sales would have been just 38, and he did not print a new edition. 138 Melville himself never saw these reviews, and Parker calls it a "bitter irony" that the reception overseas was "all he could possibly have hoped for, short of a few conspicuous proclamations that the distance between him and Shakespeare was by no means immeasurable." 139. 49 Most importantly, through Shakespeare, Melville infused Moby-Dick with a power of expression he had not previously possessed. 111 Melville's revisions and British editorial revisions edit The English edition, set by Bentley's printers from the American page proofs with Melville's revisions and corrections, differs from the American edition in over 700 wordings and thousands of punctuation and spelling changes. Already several fatalities had attended his chase.

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