Recently added articles from The Review of Contemporary Fiction:
Introduction.(Herman Melville's "; or The Whale")(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009 ... ; or The Whale is a lost work from Herman Melville's major period (1851), never before published, which was unknown--quite literally could not have been known--until 2007. It is thus both a classic and a contemporary work of fiction, avant-garde even, in its typographical experimentation ...
Part II: Herman Melville's "; or The Whale".(Chapter 17 to 36)(Excerpt)(Novel)
Jun 22, 2009; ... CHAPTER 17 The Ramadan never mind how comical, thought he knew what he was about, I suppose; he Towards evening, when I felt assured that all his performances and rituals must be over, I went up to his room and knocked at the door; but no ...
Part III: Herman Melville's "; or The Whale".(Chapter 37 to 53)(Excerpt)(Novel)
Jun 22, 2009; ... CHAPTER 37 Sunset (The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out.) I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. ...
Part IV: Herman Melville's "; or The Whale".(Chapter 54 to 65)(Excerpt)(Novel)
Jun 22, 2009; ... CHAPTER 54 The Town-Ho's Story (As told at the Golden Inn) The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more travellers than in any other part. It ...
Part V: Herman Melville's "; or The Whale".(Chapter 66 to 89)(Excerpt)(Novel)
Jun 22, 2009; ... CHAPTER 66 The Shark Massacre , to be sure, (g) Nor was this all. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures. A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in their very joints and bones, after what might be called ...