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  Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)

  by Sena Jeter Naslund

  From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick , Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a... (more)
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  Moby-Dick

  by Herman Melville

  Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, 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. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco Explanatory Commentary by Tom Quirk
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  In the Heart of the Sea

  The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

  by Nathaniel Philbrick

  The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather,... (more)
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  Ahab's Wife

  by Sena Jeter Naslund

  Woodcut illustrations by Christopher Wormell. A novel inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick. 9 inches tall, 668 pages.
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  Moby-Dick

  by Herman Melville

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  Moby Dick

  by Lew Sayre Schwartz

  Killing a sixty-ton sperm whale that could destroy a boat with a flick of its massive tail was no easy task. Whalemen of the early nineteenth century were not just hunters, they were also explorers—sailing on the uncharted sea in search of some of the largest creatures on earth. The most famous whale of all? Moby Dick. Here are Ishmael, Queequeq, Ahab, and of course, Moby Dick, rendered anew in a dynamic comic... (more)
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  Moby Dick

  by Allan Drummond

  In this full-color picture-book adaptation of the classic, Allan Drummond pays homhge to one of the greatest sea stories ever told. Staying as true to Herman Melville's language as possible, and taking Ishmael as his narrator, Drummond tells of the adventure of Captain Ahab's relentless quest for revenge.
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  Herman Melville (Penguin Lives)

  by Elizabeth Hardwick

  A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging shape of his life . . . a story of the creative history of an extraordinary American genius." Hardwick's superb... (more)
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  A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (New York Review Books Collections)

  by Mary McCarthy

  Mary McCarthy was one of the leading literary figures of her time. Best remembered for her novels and memoirs, she was also a tireless literary and social critic. The intellectual brio and acute judgment that characterize her best fiction is vividly displayed in this rich selection of essays spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. Topics include everything from McCarthyism, Vietnam, and Watergate to Eugene O’Neill, J. D.... (more)
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  Moby-Dick: A Pop-Up Book

  by Sam Ita

  “Call me Ishmael.” Three of the most famous words in all literature, they begin Herman Melville’s masterpiece, Moby-Dick . Now, the epic saga of Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest for the white whale comes vividly to life in this three-dimensional graphic novel, the first of its kind. This phenomenal work is the creation of multi-talented artist Sam Ita, apprentice to Robert Sabuda—one of the world’s master paper... (more)