Why Read Moby-Dick?

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123971
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book Award–winning bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick brings a sailor’s eye and an adventurer’s passion to unfolding the story behind an epic American journey. He skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious enthusiasm…”—New York Times Book Review

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782491251284
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description

Moby Dick

Author: Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1466820454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
AHOY! Come with us aboard the Pequod. We search for Moby Dick, the Great White Whale! Along with Captain Ahab, you'll meet danger face to face, hunting the fiercest creature the seas have ever known! Are you brave enough— and bold enough— for the adventure of your life? The award-winning author and illustrator team of Eric A. Kimmel and Andrew Glass introduce a new generation of readers to a magnificent and memorable retelling of Herman Melville's masterpiece, Moby Dick.

Best of Herman Melville

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904605805
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4

Book Description
Includes Billy Budd read by Christopher Timothy and Moby Dick read by Bob Sessions.

Moby Dick

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description

The Cultural Gutter

Author: Carol Borden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557958393
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Science fiction, fantasy, comics, romance, genre movies, games all drain into the Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful articles about disreputable art-media and genres that are a little embarrassing. Irredeemable. Worthy of Note, but rolling like errant pennies back into the gutter. The Cultural Gutter is dangerous because we have a philosophy. We try to balance enthusiasm with clear-eyed, honest engagement with the material and with our readers. This book expands on our mission with 10 articles each from science fiction/fantasy editor James Schellenberg, comics editor and publisher Carol Borden, romance editor Chris Szego, screen editor Ian Driscoll and founding editor and former games editor Jim Munroe.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Illustrated)

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: coolaij
ISBN: 3985103976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 734

Book Description
This illustrated edition of "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" includes: Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee.

Mocha Dick

Author: Jeremiah N. Reynolds
Publisher: Sicpress.com
ISBN: 9780615795942
Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific," the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had several harpoons in his body.

Moby-Dick

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 760

Book Description
In this adaptation of Melville's masterpiece, McCaughrean recounts the tale of the obsessed Captain Ahab, as he pursues the great white whale--a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. 55 illustrations, 25 in color.

Moby-Dick

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143124676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 687

Book Description
"First published in the United States of America by Harper & Brothers 1851"--Title page verso.