Moby-Dick
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001JHT806 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 462 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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For school libraries that support an American literature curriculum, this recording offers a different interpretation of an enduring classic.Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Rocky Hill, CT Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. . The St. Background music and appropriate sound effects enhance the telling of the story about Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the malevolent white whale. Charles Players do a credible job on the major roles, but some of the group responses, such as "Aye, aye Captain," sound more comic than ser
A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.
"This is one of the greatest American novels of all time for a reason" according to Travis Whittington. I had avoided reading this monster of a book for many years. What was I thinking!? This is one of the greatest American novels of all time for a reason. It's what a millenial like myself would call an epic, although I believe romance was the term used by Hawthor. Casey said Herman Melville's opus paints a vivid canvas of one man's monomaniacal obsession-KILL the whale!!. Ever since I was 17 or 18 years old, I have ALWAYS been fascinated with the beauty-and ferocity of whales, through watching documentaries and gazing upon whale paintings, especially one that I'd seen with my family within an art gallery in Lahaina, Maui. While r. An Excellent And Gorgeous Adaptation of Moby Dick Author Lance Stahlberg and illustrator Lalit Kumar Singh do a stupendous job at tackling one of the longest novels in American literature in graphic format. Stahlberg is faithful to Melville in plot and characterization. While I read it, I felt that I was part o