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Why read Moby-Dick?

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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.
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Moby Dick.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sea stories, American > History and criticism.
Online Access:Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
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Table of 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.

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