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Ed. Tamia A. Burt, Joseph D. Thomas, and Marsha L. McCabe. New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publication, Inc., 2002. 223 pp., illus., indexes, bibliography.
Let's get it out of the way upfront: the reviewer doesn't understand book abridgments: doesn't read them and doesn't listen to them on tape. What other art forms are similarly curtailed? Film? Sculpture? Poetry? Video games? Tax returns are available in short forms to save time and money. Abridgments potentially save time and money too, becoming accessible to a wide readership. And in a time-honored tradition editors have abridged America's great novel in order to entice potential students and readers. But however potentially broad the appeal, the fidelity of Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage to the original falls somewhere short of the canon and ahead of the Classics Illustrated comics rendering. The assemblage of a vast number of words into a great many pages does not a great American novel make.
Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage offers text, images and the interplay of both. The text is abbreviated in a relatively utilitarian manner, however. It is not a little unnerving to find Melville's "Extracts"...
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