Item type | Location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | F MEL (Browse shelf) | Available | S158685555 |
F MEL Typee : | F MEL Moby Dick | F MEL Moby Dick | F MEL Moby Dick | F MEN The beautiful things that heaven bears | F MEN Argo : | F MER Night train to Lisbon / |
Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville’s masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee.