| Description |
1 online resource (x, 131 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Philbrick, Nathaniel. Why read Moby-Dick? New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2011 9780670022991 (DLC) 2011019766 (OCoLC)707969113 |
| ISBN |
9781101542330 (electronic bk.) |
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1101542330 (electronic bk.) |
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9781101545218 (electronic bk.) |
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1101545216 (electronic bk.) |
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