Bibliograph

Why read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick

Type

Label

Why read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why read Moby-Dick?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

707969113

Responsibility statement

Nathaniel Philbrick

Summary

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

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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