title: Moby-Dick (Third Edition)  (Norton Critical Editions)
author:  Herman Melville 
description: Hershel Parker is a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, and of the Norton Critical Edition of Melvilles The Confidence-Man and Moby Dick. He is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry).
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  **THE DARK NET**
  
  
  Copyright © 2014, 2015 by Jamie Bartlett
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2014 by William Heinemann, an imprint of
  Random House
  
  
  First Melville House Printing: June 2015
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ISBN: 978-1-61219-489-9 (hardcover)
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-61219-490-5 (ebook)
  
  
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  For Huey, Max, Sonny, and Thomas, who were born while I was writing this book.
  When they are old enough, I hope they will read it and wonder what on earth
  all the fuss was about, and laugh at their un