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Herman Melville's Moby Dick
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has been replaced by a prosthesis fashioned from a sperm whale's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 ...
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Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
The book who's title won't translate well - becomes a Writers' Club Selection
About
this book:
Les
Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first
published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of
the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually
referred to by its original French title, which has not been
successfully translated from French (attempts ranging from The
Miserable, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The
Wretched Poor and The Victims, to The Dispossessed). Beginning in
1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel
follows the lives and interactions of several characters, focusing on
the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of
redemption.
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Still yet another Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection...
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About this book:
Jane Eyre
(originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by
English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847
by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.
It tells
the story of a plain governess (Jane) who, after early life
difficulties, falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester. They
marry, but only after Rochester's insane first wife (of whom Jane
initially had no knowledge) dies in a dramatic house fire. In its
internalization of the action — the focus is on the gradual
unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the
events are colored by a heightened intensity that was previously the
domain of poetry — the novel revolutionized the art of fiction.
Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private
consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and
Proust.
The novel
begins with the titular character Jane Eyre living with her maternal
uncle's family, the Reeds, as her uncle's dying wish. The novel
starts when Jane is ten years old and several years after her parents
died of typhus. Mr. Reed was the only one in the Reed family to be
kind to Jane. Jane’s aunt Sarah Reed does not like her, treats her
worse than a servant and discourages and, at times, forbids her
children from associating with Jane. Mrs. Reed and her three children
are abusive to Jane, both physically and emotionally. The servant
Bessie proves to be Jane's only ally in the household even though
Bessie sometimes harshly scolds Jane. Excluded from the family
activities, Jane is incredibly unhappy with only a doll and
occasionally books in which to find solace. One day, Jane is locked
in the red room, where her uncle died, and panics after seeing
visions of him. She is finally rescued when she is allowed to attend
Lowood School for Girls, after the physician Mr. Lloyd convinces Mrs.
Reed to send Jane away. Before Jane leaves, she confronts Mrs. Reed
and declares that she'll never call her "aunt" again, that
Mrs. Reed and her daughters, Georgiana, and Eliza are deceitful and
that she'd tell everyone at Lowood how cruelly Mrs. Reed treated
her... (source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Charlotte
Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and
poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into
adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote
Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.
Speculation
about the identity of Currer Bell and whether the author was male or
female heightened with the publication of Emily Brontë's Wuthering
Heights by "Ellis Bell" and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey by
"Acton Bell".
Accompanying the speculation was a change in the critical reaction to Charlotte's work and accusations were made that the writing was "coarse", a judgment more readily made once it was suspected that "Currer Bell" was a woman. However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an 'improper' book. (source: Wikipedia)
Accompanying the speculation was a change in the critical reaction to Charlotte's work and accusations were made that the writing was "coarse", a judgment more readily made once it was suspected that "Currer Bell" was a woman. However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an 'improper' book. (source: Wikipedia)
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
New Writers' Club Selection was actually political parody of the time.
About this book:
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a
Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels
(1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman
Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of
the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's
best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
The book became popular as soon as it was
published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is
universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery."
During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore
after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny
people, less than 6 inches tall, who are inhabitants of the island
country of Lilliput. After giving assurances of his good behavior, he
is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favorite of the court.
From there, the book follows Gulliver's observations on the Court of
Lilliput. He is also given the permission to roam around the city on
a condition that he must not harm their subjects. Gulliver assists
the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbors, the Blefuscudians, by
stealing their fleet. However, he refuses to reduce the island nation
of Blefuscu to a province of Lilliput, displeasing the King and the
court.
Gulliver is charged with treason for, among other "crimes", "making water" in the capital (even though he was putting out a fire and saving countless lives.) He is convicted and sentenced to be blinded, but with the assistance of a kind friend, he escapes to Blefuscu...
Gulliver is charged with treason for, among other "crimes", "making water" in the capital (even though he was putting out a fire and saving countless lives.) He is convicted and sentenced to be blinded, but with the assistance of a kind friend, he escapes to Blefuscu...
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About the author:
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October
1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer
(first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who
became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's
Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters,
The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity,
and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in
the English language,gulliver and is less well known for
his poetry.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - yet another Writers' Club Selection
Classic fiction from the best - and tragedy haunted more than her characters...
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About this book:
Frankenstein;
or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about
eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque
creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started
writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published
when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously
in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition,
published in France in 1823.
Shelley had
traveled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes
place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas
were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her
future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream.
Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a
competition to see who could write the best horror story. After
thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be,
Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified
by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein.
The novel
Frankenstein is written in epistolary form, documenting a
correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret
Walton Saville. Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the
North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving
fame. During the voyage the crew spots a dog sled mastered by a
gigantic figure. A few hours later, the crew rescues a nearly frozen
and emaciated man named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein has been in
pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton's crew. Frankenstein
starts to recover from his exertion; he sees in Walton the same
over-ambitiousness and recounts a story of his life's miseries to
Walton as a warning.
Victor
begins by telling of his childhood. Born into a wealthy family in
Geneva, he is encouraged to seek a greater understanding of the world
around him through science. He grows up in a safe environment,
surrounded by loving family and friends. When he is four years old,
his parents adopt Elizabeth Lavenza, an orphan whose mother has just
died. Victor has a possessive infatuation with Elizabeth. Much of the
story focuses on this infatuation and the rise and fall of their
interactions. He has two younger brothers: Ernest and William.
As a young
boy, Victor is obsessed with studying outdated theories of science
that focus on achieving natural wonders. When he witnesses lightning
strike an oak tree, splitting it in two, he is inspired to harness
the power of lightning. His mother dies of scarlet fever weeks before
he leaves for the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. At university,
he excels at chemistry and other sciences, and develops a secret
technique to imbue inanimate bodies with life...
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Mary
Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1
February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer,
dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for
her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She
also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet
and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political
philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and
feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
In 1816,
the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William
Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary
conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left
Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died
before Mary Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child,
Percy Florence. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat
sank during a storm in the Bay of La Spezia. A year later, Mary
Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the
upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author.
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Jane Austen's Emma - New Classic Fiction For Study
Yet another Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection now available.
About this book:
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Another Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
About this book:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel. Written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre, and its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
Alice is feeling bored while sitting on the
riverbank with her sister, when she notices a talking, clothed White
Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit
hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curious hall with many
locked doors of all sizes. She finds a small key to a door too small
for her to fit through, but through it she sees an attractive garden.
She then discovers a bottle on a table labelled "DRINK ME",
the contents of which cause her to shrink too small to reach the key
which she has left on the table. A cake with "EAT ME" on it
causes her to grow to such a tremendous size her head hits the
ceiling...
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How to publish 4 ebook versions simultaneously on Lulu, iTunes, B&N, and Kobo
Public Domain Publishing Made Easy...
Here's a how-to on getting used to publishing public domain books (and your own work) easily and simply.
This project was started to give writers a way to find the all-time bestsellers of classic fiction so they could study and improve their craft (as Stephen King advised in his "On Writing.")
The other thing public domain books are good for is to streamline your own publishing efforts so you can get a book you've written up and online for purchase simply, quickly, easily.
Online distributors, as a whole, don't appreciate public domain books. They aren't big profit-makers. And get-rich-quick knuckleheads will try to get their own version up and try to "make money" with the least effort. Frankly, books that are in this category make very little money these days - unless you add in additional value. But know that their glory days are long gone. However, that makes your marketing that much easier, as at least they've had glory days - and so are fairly well known already.
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Top bestseller fiction book list almost complete
Your Writers' Club Book Selections are almost all ready...
Been hard at this recently, getting all your books ready. Just 4 more to go at this point.
Then, I'll come back and start telling you about each and every one. In doing that, I'll polish them up a bit more (doing double-checks, etc.) as well as publishing other formats, such as their PDF version and spiral-bound printed Study Guide version.
All so you can study (and enjoy) these classics to your heart's content.
I also owe you a blow-by-blow how-to on setting out on such an adventure on your own. Not for the faint-at-heart, nor those who dislike hands-on marketing your own books. (That might even wind up as an additional chapter for "Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors." Ya gotta love how books can be revised and updated when you control your own publishing process...)
Just wanted to drop you a note about things - and let you know to get ready to start your studies.
If you want to see what I've been up to, the link is: http://www.midwestjournalpress.com/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php
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Self-(re)publishing classic fiction faster and easier than ever.
Dickens' Tale Becomes First Fully Published Writers' Club Selection
Here's what's just came up for you. Yet another masterpiece for your study:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a former French aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife...
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