EMOJI DICK; OR THE WHALE By Herman Melville Edited and ...
[Pages:19176]EMOJI DICK; OR THE WHALE By Herman Melville
Edited and Compiled by Fred Benenson Translation by Amazon Mechanical Turk
EMOJI DICK; OR THE WHALE BY HERMAN MELVILLE
EDITED AND COMPILED BY FRED BENENSON TRANSLATION BY AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK
e first edition of Moby Dick was issued in October, 1851. e London Edition, entitled e Whale, was published by Bentley in three volumes; in New York it was issued in one volume by Harper. Chapter 54, the only part to be serialized appeared the same month in Harper's New Monthly magazine as " e Town-Ho's Story." Moby Dick was reprinted in 1863 and 1892 in New York, and in 1901 in London. A collected edition of Melville's works in sixteen volumes was issued by Constable, London in 1922-24. In 1930 Moby Dick was published in three volumes by e Lakeside Press, Chicago, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent.
e english text of edition is based on Project Gutenberg's EBook of Moby Dick which available at . It was produced by Produced by Daniel Lazarus and Jonesey and is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives. e resulting etext was compared with a public domain hard copy version of the text.
is edition does not include the first Etymology chapter.
e translations and design compilation of this book are ? 2010 Fred Benenson.
First Edition, July 2010.
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it."
- Herman Melville
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji.
Each of the book's approximately 10,000 sentences has been translated three times by a Amazon Mechanical Turk worker. ese results have been voted upon by another set of
workers, and the most popular version of each sentence has been selected for inclusion in this book.
In total, over eight hundred people spent approximately 3,795,980 seconds working to create this book.
Each worker was paid five cents per translation and two cents per vote per translation.
e funds to pay the Amazon Turk workers and print the initial run of this book were raised from eighty-three people over the course of thirty days using the funding platform Kickstarter.
More information about this project is available at
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