Why read Moby-Dick?

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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Main Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2011.
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Online Access:Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
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245 1 0 |a Why read Moby-Dick? /  |c Nathaniel Philbrick. 
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300 |a x, 131 p. ;  |c 20 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131). 
505 0 |a 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. 
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