Herman Melville's Moby Dick
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The classic fiction which almost took down the author, much as his character Captain Ahab.
About this book:
Moby-Dick;
or, The Whale, is a novel by Herman Melville first published in 1851.
It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story
tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on
the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns
that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a
ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the
whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives
Ahab to take revenge.
Moby-Dick
begins with the line "Call me Ishmael." According to the
American Book Review's rating in 2011, this is one of the most
recognizable opening lines in Western literature.
The
narrator, Ishmael, is an observant young man setting out from
Manhattan who has experience in the merchant marine but has recently
decided his next voyage will be on a whaling ship. On a cold, gloomy
night in December, he arrives at the Spouter-Inn in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, and agrees to share a bed with a then-absent stranger.
When his bunk mate, a heavily tattooed Polynesian harpooner named
Queequeg, returns very late and discovers Ishmael beneath his covers,
both men are alarmed, but the two quickly become close friends and
decide to sail together from Nantucket, Massachusetts, on a whaling
voyage.
In
Nantucket, the pair signs on with the Pequod, a whaling ship that is
soon to leave port. The ship’s captain, Ahab, is nowhere to be
seen; nevertheless, they are told of him — a "grand, ungodly,
godlike man," who has "been in colleges as well as 'mong
the cannibals," according to one of the owners. The two friends
encounter a mysterious man named Elijah on the dock after they sign
their papers and he hints at troubles to come with Ahab. The mystery
grows on Christmas morning when Ishmael spots dark figures in the
mist, apparently boarding the Pequod shortly before it sets sail that
day.
Some time
after sailing, Ahab finally appears on the quarter-deck one morning,
an imposing, frightening figure whose haunted visage sends shivers
over the narrator. One of his legs is missing from the knee down and
has been replaced by a prosthesis fashioned from a sperm whale's
jawbone.
Soon
gathering the crewmen together, with a rousing speech Ahab secures
their support for his single, secret purpose for this voyage: hunting
down and killing Moby Dick, an old, very large sperm whale, with a
snow-white hump and mottled skin, that crippled Ahab on his last
whaling voyage.
The mystery
of the dark figures seen before the Pequod set sail is explained
during the voyage's first lowering for whales. Ahab has secretly
brought along his own boat crew, including a mysterious harpooneer
named Fedallah (also referred to as 'the Parsee'), an inscrutable
figure with a sinister influence over Ahab. Later, while watching one
night over a captured whale carcass, Fedallah gives dark prophecies
to Ahab regarding their twin deaths...
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Herman
Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American
writer best known for the novel Moby-Dick. His first three books
gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a
bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late
1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and
never recovered during his lifetime.
When he
died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until
the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his
work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one
of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.
In 1919, the unfinished manuscript for his novella Billy Budd was
discovered by his first biographer, who published a version in 1924
which was acclaimed by notable British critics as another masterpiece
of Melville's. He was the first writer to have his works collected
and published by the Library of America..
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
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CDC - NIOSH Science Blog - Tales of Toil - Moby Dick, itself, has some moments: "The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the groove;- ran foul. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught ...
All Aboard!: Analysis of Phyllis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from ... - Despite debate among many historians, Phyllis Wheatley has been recognized as a true American poet. Being a slave who could read and write was only one of her accomplishments. Wheatley's tact not only allowed her to ...
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