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Why read Moby-Dick? / Nathaniel Philbrick.
Van Pelt Library PS2384.M62 P55 2011
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Philbrick, Nathaniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
- Sea stories, American.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 131 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2011.
- Summary:
- Shares expert guidelines on how to read and appreciate Herman Melville's classic work, offering insight into its history, characters, and themes while explaining its literary relevance in the modern world.
- Contents:
- The gospels in this century
- Landlessness
- Desperado philosophy
- Nantucket
- Chowder
- The Pequod
- Ahab
- The anatomy of a demagogue
- Hawthorne
- The view from the masthead
- The sea
- Is there a heaven?
- A mighty, messy book
- Unflinching reality
- Poetry
- Sharks
- The enchanted calm
- Pip
- The squeeze
- The left wing
- So remorseless a havoc
- Queequeg
- Pulling dictatorship out of a hat
- Essex redux
- The inmost leaf
- Ahab's last stand
- Evil art
- Neither believer nor infidel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780670022991
- 0670022993
- OCLC:
- 707969113
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