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Why Read Moby-Dick?

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Book - 2011 813.3 Ph 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3 out of 5

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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.
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.

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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: x, 131 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670022991
0670022993

SUBJECTS
Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.