When Captain George Pollard Jr.’s ship was rammed by a whale, he had no idea it would help make literary history.

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"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", published in 1851 tells the tale of Captain Ahab and his maniacal pursuit of the ever-elusive white whale, Moby Dick. The story is told primarily through the thoughts of ...

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Captain Pollard managed to reach the island ... for one of America’s greatest novels, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, the story of a doomed whaling voyage that ends when the ship is rammed ...

I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...

Herman Melville’s hallucinogenic magnum opus Moby-Dick is very obviously impossible ... Everyone else, from crazed Captain Ahab to doomed cabin-boy Pip is portrayed by eerie (mostly) human ...

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Herman Melville wrote the first draft of Moby Dick at 25 Craven Street The former Blue Plaque home of American author Herman Melville, where he wrote early drafts of Mody-Dick in the late 1840s ...