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Article: Moby-Dick
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick (1851) Herman MELVILLE's intricate, mammoth novel
about a sea captain's hunt for the white whale that has crippled him.
On
the surface, the book is a rousing sea story, filled with endless
obiter
dicta about nineteenth-century whaling. Its philosophical undercurrents,
however, are so complex that it is often touted as the GREAT
AMERICAN ...
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Article: John F. Birk, Tracing the Round: the Astrological Framework of ...
Melville Society Extracts;
July 1, 2004 ;
700+ words
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