Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425046894
This is a classic adventurous novel by Herman Melville with metaphysical conjecture. The novel follows the experiences of the author in vast seas with the dramatic narration. A story of all-consuming obsession; everything about the book is whale-like in its vastness, its richness and its power. Captivating due to its philosophical depths!
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category :
ISBN : 1425047645
This is a classic adventurous novel by Herman Melville with metaphysical conjecture. The novel follows the experiences of the author in vast seas with the dramatic narration. A story of all-consuming obsession; everything about the book is whale-like in its vastness, its richness and its power. Captivating due to its philosophical depths!
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category :
ISBN : 1425047912
This is a classic adventurous novel by Herman Melville with metaphysical conjecture. The novel follows the experiences of the author in vast seas with the dramatic narration. A story of all-consuming obsession; everything about the book is whale-like in its vastness, its richness and its power. Captivating due to its philosophical depths!
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category :
ISBN : 1425048668
This is a classic adventurous novel by Herman Melville with metaphysical conjecture. The novel follows the experiences of the author in vast seas with the dramatic narration. A story of all-consuming obsession; everything about the book is whale-like in its vastness, its richness and its power. Captivating due to its philosophical depths!
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0143123971
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
Author : Jeremiah N. Reynolds
Publisher : Sicpress.com
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : Sperm whale
ISBN : 9780615795942
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.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
Author : Kay Dick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1946022349
A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als) Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing “They” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out. Winner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick’s They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.
Author : Editors of Canterbury Classics
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1489 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1684125618
"Philosophy begins in wonder." —Plato Have you ever wondered about the development of civilization? What topics were discussed in the days of Ancient Greece? This collection of thoughts from Plato, Aristotle, and other masters of philosophy will lead your mind on a journey of enlightened exploration into ethics, morality, law, medicine, and more. With an introduction by a distinguished scholar of classic literature, this Canterbury Classics volume is sure to be a favorite.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
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.
