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Simon & Schuster, March 1999
Mass Market Paperback, 640 pages
ISBN-10: 0671028359
ISBN-13: 9780671028350
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Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told.
Moby-Dick, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature.
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Browse Inside Moby-DickD.H. Lawrence Moby-Dick commands a stillness in the soul, an awe...[it is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.
South Coast Today, October 15, 2011
...Starbuck is the conscience of the Pequod, and those who think it's an expensive cup of coffee. "Moby-Dick," by Herman Melville (1851) is a book people either love or hate. You either hate it because it's close to 1,000 pages, long-winded, ...
Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2011
...copy of Ian Fleming's James Bond thriller "Casino Royale" ($19,529) and a 1979 art edition of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick; or The Whale," illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser ($28,900). RELATED: Herman Melville was big in ...
Atlantic Monthly, October 12, 2011
...and self-taught artist Matt Kish has been drawing every page of the 552-page Signet Classics paperback edition of Herman Melville's iconic Moby-Dick , methodically producing one gorgeous, obsessive drawing per day for 552 days using pages ...
AL.com, October 9, 2011
...hilarious adventure ensues. “Why Read Moby-Dick?” by Nathaniel Philbrick - History (Viking Adult) — Nathaniel Philbrick skillfully navigates Herman Melville’s world and illuminates MOBY-DICK’s humor and unforgettable characters ...
Blogcritics.org, October 6, 2011
...Share There is something about Moby-Dick that draws creative moths to its flame. Herman Melville's 1851 classic story has been told in almost a dozen film incarnations, as a pop-up book, in cartoons, and adapted ...
Time Out Chicago, September 27, 2011
...Despite having a central figure who calls to mind Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, Herman Melville’s 1851 masterpiece doesn’t lend itself easily to theatrical adaptation. As any AP English student can tell you, the novel is long and ...
South Coast Today, January 7, 2010
...Herman Melville (1819-1891) wrote five novels before penning the masterpiece he's best remembered for today, 'Moby-Dick.' To honor the epic work, the New Bedford Whaling Museum will present its 14th ...
South Coast Today, January 7, 2010
...4. A. ("Moby-Dick, or the Whale" is the original title of the novel published in America.) 5. D. (Though the novel is chockful of details, Melville never specifies which of Ahab's legs ...
Wicked Local Plympton, December 18, 2009
...man and beast while preserving the historical aspects of the ordeal. “This nonfiction whale tale is reminiscent of Herman Melville’s book Moby-Dick, which was gleaned from stories about the sinking of the Essex. “Certain to provide a ...
San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2009
...Many visual artists working today appear preoccupied with how to integrate literary or discursive content into their work. "Moby-Dick," at the California College of the Arts' Logan Galleries in San Francisco, reflects this development ...
Crikey Media, October 7, 2009
...requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, Citizen Kane at twenty-five. Herman Melville wrote a book a year through his late twenties, culminating, at age thirty-two, with Moby-Dick. Mozart ...
Berkshire Eagle, August 23, 2009
...by the recent emphasis on the Berkshire's culture heritage. Even casual visitors to the Berkshires know that Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick while living in Pittsfield. But few know that Berkshire resident William Stanley invented the coal ...
Observer, August 4, 2009
...a strange, mournful journey, conducted by this man who feared the whales, says Ruaridh Nicoll My copy of Moby-Dick is a treasured possession. It's not because of the special font, but rather the woodcuts spread through the text that, as I ...
The Independent, July 2, 2009
...multi-dimensional quest for the whale through memoir, biography, zoology, history, travel and of course the fictional monster of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. It richly embodies the new directions in narrative that Sebald took himself, and ...
Seattle Times, June 9, 2009
...And because it will turn on students. His idea is to have them read Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick,' Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' Albert Camus' 'The Plague,' and something from Edgar Allan ...
USA Today, May 31, 2009
...has 240 opening sentences organized into 12 themes, including 'Irony Chef' (books about food). Several are inspired by Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, printed merely on paper in 1851 (and deemed a commercial flop): 'Text me Ishmael ...
South Coast Today, May 27, 2009
...what some students at the Abraham Lincoln Elementary School like to think. Recently, after reading a version of Herman Melville's classic novel 'Moby-Dick', eight fifth-graders decided to write and illustrate their own adaptation: 'Moby Dick ...
MSNBC Newsweek, March 28, 2009
...went back, I found myself laughing at the most serious moments. A book to which you always return: 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville. My desert-island pick. It should be No. 6 on the list up there. © 2009 ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 26, 2009
...whole range of books that have made important contributions to our culture.' The library's first book was Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick.' Its 200th book, a collection of travel writing by Mark Twain, will be released next year on April 21, ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 25, 2009
...whole range of books that have made important contributions to our culture.' The library's first book was Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick.' Its 200th book, a collection of travel writing by Mark Twain, will be released next year on April 21, ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 24, 2009
...whole range of books that have made important contributions to our culture.' The library's first book was Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick.' Its 200th book, a collection of travel writing by Mark Twain, will be released next year on April 21, ...
New York Magazine, March 6, 2009
...be right: It is a bit of a messy book. I don?t mean to liken myself to Herman Melville, but you know, Moby-Dick is a messy book. She and others have complained that the characters ? particularly your very bitter matriarch, Audrey ? are not ...
Indian Express, January 19, 2009
...have supplied Obama with concrete ideas about governance. His love of fiction and poetry ? Shakespeare?s plays, Herman Melville?s Moby-Dick and Marilynne Robinson?s Gilead, along with Lincoln?s collected writings ? has imbued him with a ...
South Coast Today, January 2, 2009
...an elusive white whale. They know Ishmael like an old friend. And on Saturday, city fifth-graders will celebrate 'Moby-Dick' alongside countless other fans of the classic novel. Eight students from Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, who ...
ArticleXplosion.com, December 30, 2008
...warned us, could take as long as two or three decades to be understood and appreciated. After all, Herman Melville sold fewer than a hundred copies of the classic novel, Moby-Dick, during his lifetime. I politely (and stupidly) disagreed. I ...
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