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Article: `Moby Dick' eludes PBS producers.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Television)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1996
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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is a book that thrills and delights the reader on several levels. Unfortunately, the Learning Channel's "Great Books" program examining this masterpiece cannot say the same.
As an adventure story, "Moby Dick" stirs the blood with its epic struggles of man against raging nature, whether that nature be the wind, the sea or the great white whale.
It is a compendium of information. Though Melville persists in classifying the great creature as a fish, he fills his narrative with facts about its anatomy and its habits. His narrative about life on a whaling ship is so detailed that this reviewer stepped aboard the Morgan, a ...