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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 16 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Modern scholar.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Lecture given by Timothy B. Shutt. |
| Summary |
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D.H. Lawrence wrote, Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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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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| Added Author |
Shutt, Timothy B..
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781490633961 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1490633960 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13538021 |
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