A detail of a 1960s 'Moby-Dick' book cover. People still have things to say about "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville's 1851 novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive and dangerous hunt for a great white whale.
Moussa Kone, illustrator and Harpune Verlag, publisher. "Etymology," 2012. (Courtesy Moussa Kone and Harpune Verlag. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum) Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On ...
SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...
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