"the UK in February 2012 by Union Books () with a shorter subtitle: ""Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea"". It was noted by ""The New York Times"" as one of the ""100 Notable Books of 2011"", shortlisted for the 2012 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, runner-up of the 2012 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and runner-up of the 2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. The title is a reference to Herman Melville's classic seafaring novel ""Moby-Dick"". Moby-Duck Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the"
"was a retired sailor who had survived the sinking of the whaleship ""Essex"" as a cabin boy. (The first mate's 1821 account of the disaster, as well as personal contact with the captain, inspired Herman Melville in writing his 1851 novel ""Moby Dick"".) Lewis encouraged Nickerson to write down his story and in 1876 received from Nickerson a manuscript with additional accounts of his life. Lewis did nothing with the material, but a friend of his secured the trunk that contained it during Lewis' crisis with creditors in 1879. It was discovered by the friend's family in 1960. In 1860"
"Melville wrote Moby-Dick in 1851, the similarities between the Melville character Tashtego and Smalley are notable. In fact, Smalley was invited to the opening of the movie ""Moby Dick."" Melville described Tashtego as follows: <poem> ""an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly promontory of Martha’s Vineyard, where there still exists the last remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers. In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers."" </poem> Later in his life, much interest surrounded Amos and his"
"about any past affiliations. He tries to describe in general the types of people who were alleged communists: Huston took producing, writing, and directing credits for his next two films: ""Moulin Rouge"" (1952); and ""Beat the Devil"" (1953). ""Moby Dick"" (1956), however, was written by Ray Bradbury, although Huston had his name added to the screenplay credit after the completion of the project. Although Huston had personally hired Bradbury to adapt Herman Melville's novel into a screenplay, Bradbury and Huston did not get along during pre-production, and Bradbury later dramatized their relationship in the short story ""Banshee""; Peter O'Toole would"
"age and pain from disease) was later discovered floating on the surface, mortally injured and ""full of wooden splinters"" from the attack. American writer Herman Melville was inspired by the account of the ""Essex"", and used some facts from the story, as well as his own eighteen-month experience as a sailor aboard a commercial whaler, to write his epic 1851 novel on the oil whaling industry, Moby Dick. The sections in ""Moby Dick"" on the biology of the sperm whale were largely based on books by Thomas Beale (1839) and Frederick Bennett (1840). Whaling activity declined from the 1880s until"
"Captain Ahab Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship ""Pequod"". On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone. The whaling voyage of the ""Pequod"" ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags Ahab to the bottom of"
"two volume condensation of the ""Penny Cyclopaedia"" specifically regarding the British Empire, published 1850-51. The novelist Herman Melville is known to have used the ""Penny Cyclopædia"" while writing ""Moby-Dick"" and other novels, and scholar Paul McCarthy has suggested that the encyclopedia's coverage of moral insanity and monomania may have influenced Melville's characters in ""Moby-Dick"" and other writings. Vol. 1. A-And—Vol. 2. And-Ath—Vol. 3. Ath-Bas—Vol. 4. Bas-Blo—Vol. 5. Blo-Buf—Vol. 6. Buf-Cha—Vol. 7. Cha-Cop—Vol. 8. Cop-Dio—Vol. 9. Dio-Ern—Vol. 10. Ern-Fru—Vol. 11. Fue-Had—Vol. 12. Had-Int—Vol. 13. Int-Lim—Vol. 14. Lim-Mas—Vol. 15. Mas-Mur—Vol. 16. Murillo—Organ (1840)—Vol. 17. Org-Per—Vol. 18. Per-Pri—Vol. 19. Pri-Ric—Vol. 20. Ric-Sca—Vol. 21."
"Queequeg Queequeg is a fictional character in the 1851 novel ""Moby-Dick"" by American author Herman Melville. The son of a South Sea chieftain who left home to explore the world, Queequeg is the first principal character encountered by the narrator, Ishmael. The quick friendship and relationship of equality between the tattooed cannibal and the white sailor shows Melville's basic theme of shipboard democracy and racial diversity. Once aboard the whaling ship ""Pequod"" Queequeg becomes the harpooner for the mate Starbuck. At the end of the novel he ""casts the runes"", which say he will die. He therefore builds a coffin"
"Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, would be recognized as America's other essential poet. Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl S. Buck, T. S. Eliot and Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"" (1925), and Harper Lee's ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960)—"
"Moby Dick—Rehearsed Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a two-act drama by Orson Welles. The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in a production directed by Welles. The original cast included Welles, Christopher Lee, Kenneth Williams, Joan Plowright, Patrick McGoohan, Gordon Jackson, Peter Sallis, and Wensley Pithey. The play was published by Samuel French in 1965. Welles used minimal stage design. The stage was bare, the actors appeared in contemporary street clothes, and the props were minimal. For example, brooms were used for oars, and a stick was used for a telescope. The actors"
"of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American literary voice by the middle of the 19th century. Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, is now recognized as an essential American poet. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"" (1925) and Harper Lee's ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960)—may be"
"Moby Dick (unfinished film) Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play ""Moby Dick—Rehearsed"", or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break in the filming of ""The Other Side of the Wind"". There is some ambiguity about"
"the story and Amasa Delano's original account, and that Melville thought this relationship was better left unrevealed in a ""tale"". No other printing appeared during Melville's lifetime. Among those editors was Richard Henry Dana, an anti-slavery activist whose Boston-based Vigilance Committee outfitted a vessel in 1852 dubbed the Moby Dick to ferry fugitive slaves to safety.19 By the time Benito Cereno was being composed and edited, Putnam’s was owned by Joshua Dix, Arthur Edwards, and silent partner Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted, who copyedited and proofread Benito Cereno, is responsible for some of the idiosyncratic spelling in the tale’s Putnam’s version.20"
"Herman Melville Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include ""Typee"" (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last 30 years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and original,"
"Americans in a similar fashion, for both privileged feeling over reason, individual freedom of expression over the restraints of tradition and custom. It often involved a rapturous response to nature. It encouraged the rejection of harsh, rigid Calvinism, and promised a new blossoming of American culture. The romantic American novel developed fully with Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804–1864) ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850), a stark drama of a woman cast out of her community for committing adultery. Hawthorne's fiction had a profound impact on his friend Herman Melville (1819–1891). In ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), an adventurous whaling voyage becomes the vehicle for examining such themes"
"This in turn influenced American novelists like Herman Melville in works such as ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Early Victorian Gothic novels included Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847) and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847). The genre was revived and modernised toward the end of the century with works like Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" (1886), Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890) and Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897). By the late nineteenth century pseudo-medieval symbols were the currency of European monarchical state propaganda. German emperors dressed up in and proudly displayed medieval costumes in public, and"
"Henry Kendall and Herman Melville served on Sydney whalers as young men and later wrote about the experience, Kendall as a poet and Melville in ""Omoo"" (1847) although he is better known as the author of ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Many leading entrepreneurs owned whaling ships. John Macarthur (wool pioneer), Robert Campbell, Benjamin Boyd and Robert Towns in Sydney, and Alexander McGregor, William Crowther, Askin Morrison and Alexander Imlay in Hobart were prominent entrepreneurs who diversified their business interests by owning whaling ships. Others were indirectly involved, supplying such vessels with provisions, equipment and dockside services in port. Whale oil and"
"Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. <ref>Scott Standard Postage Catalog, Volume 1, Page 57, Scott #2094. Scott Publishing Company, Sidney Ohio, 2000./<ref> Herman Melville Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include ""Typee"" (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last 30 years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the"
"the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948) 70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949) 71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951) 72. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951) 73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953) 74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) 75. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 76. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) 77. Voss by Patrick White (1957) 78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1960) 80. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) 81. The"
"popular with some group of antebellum readers,"" combining elements of ""the picaresque novel, the travelogue, the nautical adventure, the sentimental novel, the sensational French romance, the gothic thriller, temperance tracts, urban reform literature, and the English pastoral."" In January 1850, another novel ""White-Jacket"" was published by Bentley in London, and in March by Harper in New York. In early May 1850 Melville wrote to fellow sea author Richard Henry Dana Jr. a letter that contains what is the earliest surviving mention of the writing of ""Moby-Dick"", saying he was already ""half way"" done. In June he described the book to"
"clips can be seen in Vassili Slovic's 1995 documentary ""Orson Welles: the One Man Band"". Moby Dick (unfinished film) Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play ""Moby Dick—Rehearsed"", or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break"
"were rescued by the Nantucket whaler ""Nantucket"" under the command of Captain Gibbs. A last attempt to retrieve anything from the ""Ann Alexander"" was abandoned due to rough seas, and the crew was eventually landed in Paita on September 15, 1851. They all returned to New York via the schooner ""Providence"" on October 12. Just a few months later, October 18, 1851, and November 14, 1851, the first editions of Hermann Melville's great whaling novel ""Moby-Dick"", inspired by the ""Essex"" attack, were published in London and New York City, respectively. Melville commented, ""Ye Gods! What a commentator is this ""Ann"
"are marked with a ""(CC)"" and those from ""The Other Mary Shelley"" with an ""(OMS)"". Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter"
"19th century. There were 18th century and earlier precursors that have nautical settings, but few are as richly developed as subsequent works in this genre. The genre has evolved to include notable literary works like Herman Melville's ""Moby Dick"" (1851), Joseph Conrad's ""Lord Jim"" (1899–1900), popular fiction like C.S. Forester's Hornblower series (1937–67), and works by authors that straddle the divide between popular and literary fiction, like Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (1970–2004). Because of the historical dominance of nautical culture by men, they are usually the central characters, except for works that feature ships carrying women passengers. For this reason,"
"Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin, who was able to provide his daughter"
"Jane Austen (1816) 8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) 9. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (1818) 10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838) 11. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845) 12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) 13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 14. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848) 15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850) 16. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) 17. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) 18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) 19. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) 20. Little Women by Louisa"
"outpouring gave us ""David Copperfield"" (1849–1850), ""Bleak House"" (1852–1853), ""Hard Times"" (1854), ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–1857), ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (11 July 1859) and ""Great Expectations"" (1860–1861). In 1850, Alfred Lord Tennyson became Poet Laureate and Robert Louis Stevenson was born 13 November. In 1851, Sheridan Le Fanu published ""Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery"", Herman Melville published ""Moby-Dick"" and James Fenimore Cooper died 14 September. In 1852, Ivan Turgenev published ""A Sportsman's Sketches"". Leo Tolstoy published ""Childhood"". In 1854, Oscar Wilde was born 16 October. In 1859 George Eliot published her first novel ""Adam Bede"". Dostoyevsky published ""The Village"
"considered the watershed moment at which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. The romantic American novel developed fully with Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804–1864) ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850), a stark drama of a woman cast out of her community for committing adultery. Hawthorne's fiction had a profound impact on his friend Herman Melville (1819–1891). In ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), an adventurous whaling voyage becomes the vehicle for examining such themes as obsession, the nature of evil, and human struggle against the elements. By the 1880s, however, psychological and social realism were competing with Romanticism in the novel. American realist fiction has its beginnings in"
"a ""Great American Novel"" was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it ""one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world"" and ""the greatest book of the sea ever written"". Its opening sentence, ""Call me Ishmael"", is among world literature's most famous. Melville began writing ""Moby-Dick"" in February 1850, and would eventually take 18 months to write the book, a full year more than he had first anticipated. Writing was interrupted by his making the"
"like Herman Melville in works such as ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Early Victorian Gothic novels that employed contemporary rural settings included Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847) and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847). Whereas these early Gothic novels had tended to use the city as a starting point and then moved to rural locations, abandoning the settings and securities of urban civilisation for wild and dangerous rural regions, the Gothic novels of the mid-nineteenth century began to reverse this process, or were conducted entirely in the modern industrial city, which itself became a zone of liminality, danger and adventure, and from the"
"Moby Dick (1930 film) Moby Dick is a 1930 American pre-Code film from Warner Bros., directed by Lloyd Bacon, and starring John Barrymore, Joan Bennett and Walter Lang. The film is a sound remake of the 1926 silent movie, ""The Sea Beast"", which also starred Barrymore. It is the first adaption film of ""Moby Dick"" which includes a soundtrack. The film tells of a sea captain's maniacal quest for revenge on a great white whale who has bitten off his leg. Ahab meets and falls in love with Faith, the daughter of the local minister, after disembarking in New Bedford."
"author of ""Moby-Dick"", enlisted as an ordinary seaman on board ""United States"" at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 17 August 1843. His novel ""White-Jacket"", published in 1850, is a fictionalized account of his experiences on board and is highly critical of the captain of the ""United States"" and of naval customs in general. Melville observed that Armstrong often appeared on deck intoxicated. From Hawaii, ""United States"" (which Melville refers to as USS ""Neversink"") proceeded to the Marquesas Islands and lost a man overboard en route. From the Marquesas she visited Valparaiso, Chile; Lima and Callao in Peru. ""United States"" remained at Callao"
"mention of the composition of what became ""Moby-Dick"" is the final paragraph of the letter Melville wrote to Richard Henry Dana, Jr. on May 1, 1850: Some scholars have concluded that Melville composed ""Moby-Dick"" in two or even three stages. Reasoning from a series of inconsistencies and structural developments in the final version, they hypothesize that the work he mentioned to Dana was, in the words of Lawrence Buell, a ""relatively straightforward"" whaling adventure, but that reading Shakespeare and his encounters with Hawthorne inspired him to rewrite it as ""an epic of cosmic encyclopedic proportions"". Bezanson objects that the letter"