![]() Starbuck questions Ahab’s judgment, first in private and later in. ![]() ![]() But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel. Moby-Dick may be the first work of western fiction to feature a same-sex marriage: Ishmael, the loner narrator (famous for the most ambiguous opening line in literature. Moby Dick, also referred to as the White Whale, is an infamous and dangerous threat to seamen, considered by Ahab the incarnation of evil and a fated nemesis. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. In an episode of The Simpsons called The Fat and the Furriest, Lisa admonishes Homer for planning to go fight a bear that had humiliated him earlier: Dad, you can’t take revenge on an. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. (shelved 3 times as moby-dick) avg rating 3.80 1,280 ratings published 1992. Download cover art Download CD case insert Moby Dick, or the Whaleįew things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique - but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradburys Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland (Paperback) by. Melville said himself that he wanted to write a mighty book.
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