Moby Dick
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"Forget everything you have heard or think you know about this book. What it decidedly is not is the story of a one-legged madman pursuing a whale for revenge." "MOBY-DICK is as weird and far-ranging as Scripture, and stakes out the same terrority, namely heaven, hell, earth, mortality, joy, flesh, eternity, the soul. Ahab is no more mad than Edmund in KING LEAR: the real madman of MOBY-DICK is Me... More
Book Information
Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
Binding | Paperback (350 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 596 |
ISBN-10 | 1470178192 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1470178192 |
Publication Date | 03/08/2012 |
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10/3/2015 Joshua Mark said:
tags: , philosophy, religion, literature
One of my favorite works of all time and, at times, my all-time favorite. Moby Dick, to me, is the Great American Novel. It is America uniquely but universal in its theme and resonance. The story of one man's obsession with what he cannot catch and hold is something anyone from any culture can relat... more
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