Melville, Herman
Summary: Melville wrote of his masterpiece, "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1967
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Summary: "Brendan Kane is a dreamy, directionless young man in 1860's New England. Inspired by a traveling recruiter, he signs up for the Union cause and experiences the full horrors of the Civil War. He deserts, drifting north into the draft riots in New York and , finally, meets his fate in the form of the Narthex, a strangely shaped vessel anchored in the harbor of a whaling town."-Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016