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Article: FROM HATING TO LIVING 'MOBY-DICK'.(News)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- December 25, 2004
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Byline: Post staff report
Call him Robert.
That's the only way to begin a story about Robert Wallace, an expert on author Herman Melville and his famous novel, "Moby-Dick."
"Moby-Dick," considered by Wallace and many others as the great American novel, begins with one of the most famous lines in literature: "Call me Ishmael." Ishmael is the narrator who unravels the tale of Captain Ahab and his ship's crew as they chase the great white whale, Moby-Dick.
An adventure story on one level and, on another level, a philosophical treatise on respecting other people, "Moby-Dick" continues to be a triumph of imagination 153 years after its ...