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Surf's up! Not yet, Dude! Books are boring! Not this one! Bro and Dude have very different ideas about how to spend the day at the beach. But as Bro continues to gasp and cheer as he reads his book (Moby Dick), Dude can't help but get curious. Before you can shout 'Surf's up!' both frogs are sharing the same adventure, that is, until they get to the beach. Newbery Medal Winner, Kwame Alexander, and Daniel Miyares have joined forces to give little...

A new appraisal of Melville based on recent research: his life, writings, and personal critical judgments. The author, a professor at Colorado State College, has been teaching and writing about Melville for more than 20 years.

"This book asks the questions of whether Moby-Dick-the first novel to represent vast metaphorical and spiritual implications for our own behavior through ocean animals- closely conveyed the understanding of whales in the nineteenth century, and what was twisted merely for the fictional purposes. Richard King lays bare the background to Moby-Dick by moving through the voyage of the Pequod, exploring topics in marine biology, oceanography, and the science...

First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences-especially Shakespearean ones-on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks," Olson argues that there were two versions of Moby-Dick, and that Melville's reading King Lear for the first time in between the first and second versions of the book had a...

Contemporary critical opinions and commentaries on Herman Melville and his works, with a chronology, notes, and bibliography.

The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. 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...

Four literary giants of American literature cross paths on their travels and Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville pursue a doomed romantic affair.

Describes the events surrounding Melville's life and provides a detailed analysis of his major works including Typee, Omoo, White-jacket, Billy Budd, and his masterpiece, Moby-Dick.

A literary tale set in mid-nineteenth-century New England reimagines the emotionally volatile, intimate relationship between debt-ridden Herman Melville and passionate Nathaniel Hawthorne to explore how their connection shaped the writing of "Moby Dick.".