Severin, Timothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 813.3 SEVPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: Shares expert guidelines on how to read and appreciate Herman Melville's classic work, offering insight into its history, characters, and themes while explaining its literary relevance in the modern world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.3 PHIBeauregard, Mark
Summary: "In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end. In despair, Melville takes his family for a vacation to his cousin's farm in the Berkshires, where he meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic--and his life turns upside down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hesperus 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.6 MELGlyndebourne Chorus
Summary: Opera revolving around the fatal tensions that develop between a young sailor, the malevolent master-at-arms, and the captain aboard a British man o' war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BILMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1967
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Summary: Captain Ahab, obsessed with the whale who disfigured him, forces his tired and mutinous crew to travel the seas until they find it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBRoberts, Tara Karr
Summary: "Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "Surf's up! Not yet, Dude! Books are boring! Not this one! Bro and Dude have very different ideas about how to spend the day at the beach. But as Bro continues to gasp and cheer as he reads his book (Moby Dick), Dude can't help but get curious. Before you can shout 'Surf's up!' both frogs are sharing the same adventure, that is, until they get to the beach"--Excerpt from Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEBeauregard, Mark.
Summary: "A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville's emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end--his last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEADelbanco, Andrew
Summary: Chronicles the life and career of American author Herman Melville, uncovering autobiographical elements in his diverse works, discussing the historical and cultural implications of his writing, and assessing his accomplishments as a writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELVILLE, HERMAN DELContents: v. 1. Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman -- v. 2. Herman Melville to Stickney. American Indian poetry. Folk songs and spirituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.308 American 1993Summary: This introduction to Herman Melville's life and work from the Famous Authors series begins by introducing the city of New York, Melville's hometown, and the influence living in the busiest maritime port in the world had on his work. Melville eventually left home to work on a sail boat, and soon went to New Bedford, Massachusetts to become a crew member on a whaling ship, an experience that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Bloom, Harold.
Summary: "Harold Bloom, named "The indispensible critic" by the New York Review of Books, returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015