Patrick Benson
When three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, they can't help but wonder where she is. Stunning... A tragic tale of obsession and revenge set against the unforgiving sea, Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK has now been expertly edited ... [... more]
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Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, ...
 great edition here, footnoted text and relevant criticism: This book includes both the text of Melville's short works (Bartleby, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd)-approx 175 pages, and approx 225 pages of contexts (which are just what they sound like, [... more]
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Rockwell Kent
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one . [... more]
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Jan Needle
A tragic tale of obsession and revenge set against the unforgiving sea, Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK has now been expertly edited and generously illustrated for the twenty-first-century reader. Here are the mad... Herman Melville Jan ... [... more]
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Robert Sullivan
Imagine a grunge nort Jersey version of John McPhee's classic Melville's first and most popular novel during his lifetime, Robert Sullivan has written for , where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two ... [... more]
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A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature ...
Good history of the anti-hunting movement: The book explores many of the questions of hunting and anti-hunting. It spends a surprising amount of time considering the question of whether human evolution was driven by hunting (perhaps because that has been [... more]
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Moby Dick
Chronique amazon.fr: Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans pr& [... more]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
What He Did on His Vacation: Richard Henry Dana suffered from measles while a student at Harvard in 1834. Rather than suffer a slow recovery from weakened eyesight, he shipped out as a common sailor, rather than as a passenger, on a long sea voyage. [... more]
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Melville's Moby-Dick: An American Nekyia
stunningly insightful: MOBY DICK has long needed a depth-psych interpretation that could do it full justice, and Edinger provides it. As with most of his other books, I wish this one had been longer, so much compact wisdom does it contain. Look out for [... more]
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Melville's Anatomies
A literary and historical study of Melville's early novels.: In stark and refreshing contrast to much contemporary literary criticism that overlooks the historical contexts in which literature is produced, Otter's book embraces both a sophisticated [... more]
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Closet Writing/Gay Reading: The Case of Melville's Pierre
Author: James Creech Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3 EAN: 9780226120225 Is Adult Product: 0 ISBN: 0226120228 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 1994-02-15 [... more]
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CliffsNotes on Melville's Moby-Dick
Author: Stanley P. Baldwin Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3 EAN: 9780764586644 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0764586645 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2000-11-06 UPC: 785555046351 [... more]
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