"Moby Dick Coin Known in the numismatic world as a ""Moby Dick Coin"", the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold ""sixteen dollar piece"" Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the ""Pequod"", promising it to the first man who ""raises"" Moby-Dick. The coin is first mentioned in Herman Melville's novel ""Moby-Dick"", in Chapter 36 ""The Quarter Deck"" and later at length in Chapter 99 ""The Doubloon"". It is often confused as a Spanish doubloon, but this coin was not struck by the Spanish crown or endorsed by the"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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)—"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Mocha Dick Mocha Dick was a male sperm whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, usually encountered in the waters near Mocha Island, off the central coast of Chile. American explorer and author Jeremiah N. Reynolds published his account, ""Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific: A Leaf from a Manuscript Journal"" in 1839 in ""The Knickerbocker"". Mocha Dick was an albino and partially inspired Herman Melville's 1851 novel ""Moby-Dick"". Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. He was large and powerful,"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and its sequel, the ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), the latter often called ""The Great American Novel"". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for ""Tom Sawyer"" and ""Huckleberry Finn"". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on"
"project, curated by Hoare and artist Angela Cockayne, involved the construction of an online audiobook of all 135 chapters of Herman Melville's classic ""Moby Dick; or, the Whale"". The readings were delivered by a multitude of celebrities, including Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, Sir David Attenborough, John Waters, Simon Callow and David Cameron, and accompanied by images from contemporary artists such as Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, George Shaw and Susan Hiller. The readings were uploaded to the ""Moby Dick Big Read"" website, with one chapter available for download per day from 16 September 2012. All downloads are free but donations are"
"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"
"Tobias Smollett Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Roderick Random"" (1748) and ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751), and ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" (1771), which influenced later novelists including Charles Dickens. His novels were amended liberally by printers; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr O. M. Brack, Jr, to correct variants. Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton, in present-day West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was the fourth son"
"Jeremiah N. Reynolds Jeremiah N. Reynolds (fall 1799 – August 25, 1858), also known as J. N. Reynolds, was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. His lectures on the possibility of a hollow Earth appear to have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"" (1838) and his 1839 account of the whale Mocha Dick, ""Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific"", influenced Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). Born into poverty in Cumberland County Pennsylvania, he moved to Ohio as a child. In his teenage"
"Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems ""Jabberwocky"" and ""The Hunting of the Snark"" are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for"
"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"
"Mockingbird (Tevis novel) Mockingbird is a science fiction novel by Walter Tevis, first published in 1980. It was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel. A central character is the dean of New York University, Spofforth, an android who has lived for centuries yet yearns to die. The novel opens with his failed attempt at suicide. Spofforth brings a teacher, Paul Bentley, to New York. Bentley has taught himself to read after a Rosetta Stone–like discovery of a film with words matching those in a children's primer. Spofforth disliked Bentley and his reading knowledge. Bentley says he could teach"
"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,"
"J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both"
"Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack 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."
"Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. His work explored philosophical, social, and political themes, with stories dominated by monopolistic corporations, alternative universes, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His writing also reflected his interest in metaphysics and theology, and often drew upon his life experiences in addressing the nature of reality, identity, drug abuse, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences. Born in Illinois, he eventually moved to California and began publishing science fiction stories in the 1950s. His stories initially found little commercial"
"political correctness. Ignorant generations of the glory of the Western culture, of Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Voltaire, Molière, Jean Racine, Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini, were formed in these twenty years without knowledge of these people. Another book banned is Moby Dick by American writer Herman Melville, which is one of the extraordinary experiences in literature. Do you know what are the politically incorrect demonstrations of Moby Dick? In the whaling ship, the Pequod, there are only men, no woman who harpooned the whales. And Moby Dick tells about a whale hunt, hunt them is a crime against the environment. Being"