"Arrowhead (Herman Melville House) Arrowhead, also known as the Herman Melville House, is a historic house museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was the home of American author Herman Melville during his most productive years, 1850–1863. Here, Melville wrote some of his major work: the novels ""Moby-Dick"", """" (dedicated to nearby Mount Greylock), ""The Confidence-Man"", and ""Israel Potter""; ""The Piazza Tales"" (a short story collection named for Arrowhead's porch); and magazine stories such as ""I and My Chimney"". The house, located at 780 Holmes Road in Pittsfield, was built in the 1780s as a farmhouse and inn. It was adjacent to"
"morning Ishmael and Queequeg head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up for a voyage on the whaler ""Pequod"", under Captain Ahab. Ahab is obsessed by the white whale, Moby Dick, who on a previous voyage has severed his leg. In his quest for revenge Ahab has lost all sense of responsibility, and when the whale sinks the ship, all crewmembers drown, with the exception of Ishmael: “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” (Job) says the epigraph. Ishmael keeps himself afloat on a coffin until he is picked up by another whaling ship, the ""Rachel"". The name Ishmael is"
"will not be the same as the name I have tonight"". This might be a conscious echo of the opening of Melville's ""Moby-Dick"": ""Call me Ishmael"", or perhaps a contemporary bathos. The title of the novella alludes to an old joke, also alluding to ""Moby-Dick"". One of Sam's friends tells a shaggy dog story of a man who goes to India to study yoga, echoing Pip's passing mention of a joke in Melville's novel: he unscrews his navel, thinking he is on the verge of a revelation, and his ass falls off. This instance seems to suggest Sam's reluctance or"
"of both Ishmaels with the author Herman Melville. Bezanson warns readers to ""resist any one-to-one equation of Melville and Ishmael."" According to critic Walter Bezanson, the chapter structure can be divided into ""chapter sequences"", ""chapter clusters"", and ""balancing chapters"". The simplest sequences are of narrative progression, then sequences of theme such as the three chapters on whale painting, and sequences of structural similarity, such as the five dramatic chapters beginning with ""The Quarter-Deck"" or the four chapters beginning with ""The Candles"". Chapter clusters are the chapters on the significance of the colour white, and those on the meaning of fire."
"to show him how to save the world when he was younger, during the turbulent and idealistic 1960s. Now an adult, he finds an ad looking for a pupil who wants to save the world. Intrigued because his childhood question may be answered, but skeptical because he has never found answers in the past, he goes and finds Ishmael, who teaches him, as promised, about how to save the world. The narrator never reveals his name in ""Ishmael"", though it is revealed in ""My Ishmael"" to be Alan Lomax. A wealthy Jewish merchant who is mentioned only in Ishmael's back"
"the book. Ishmael, in the early chapters, is simply the narrator, just as the narrators in Melville's earlier sea adventures had been, but in later chapters becomes a mystical stage manager who is central to the tragedy. Less than two months after mentioning the project to Dana, Melville reported in a letter of June 27 to Richard Bentley, his English publisher: Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family had moved to a small red farmhouse near Lenox, Massachusetts, at the end of March 1850. He became friends with Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Melville beginning on August 5, 1850, when the authors"
"B"", and a 1997 ""sidequel,"" ""My Ishmael"". Quinn also details how he arrived at the ideas behind ""Ishmael"" in his autobiography, """". Yet another related book is Quinn's 1999 short treatise, ""Beyond Civilization"". Implicitly set in the early 1990s, ""Ishmael"" begins with a newspaper advertisement: ""Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person"". The nameless narrator and protagonist thus begins his story, telling how he first reacted to this ad with scorn because of the absurdity of ""wanting to save the world"", a notion he feels that once he naïvely embraced himself as"
"of his homeland. ""My Ishmael"" is presented as the final copy of a book published by Julie Gerchak, who has herself read ""Ishmael"". At the time she begins writing, Julie is sixteen, though during the main plot of her story she is merely twelve years old: ""a plucky, resourceful, near-genius with a wobbly home life."" Like the narrator of ""Ishmael"", Julie discovers a message in her city's newspaper, which advertises a teacher seeking someone who wishes to save the world. Julie arrives at Room 105 of the Fairfield Building to discover a gorilla, Ishmael, whom she is able to communicate"
"had done it, and Weaver replied, ""I boiled ice cubes."" By the mid-1930s, Weaver had lost interest in Melville. He freely gave advice to Charles Olson in preparing his study, ""Call Me Ishmael"", published in 1947, but declined to read the manuscript that Olson submitted for publication. His Columbia colleague Lionel Trilling later said that Weaver ""came to regard Melville with some irony, as too much a romantic,"" and that Weaver preferred Dante and Italian Renaissance writers. Weaver was given tenure in 1937, but since he never completed his PhD (and perhaps because he was open about his homosexuality), he"
"Biblical in origin: in Genesis 16:1-16; 17:18-25; 21:6-21; 25:9-17, Ishmael was the son of Abraham by the servant Hagar. In 16:11-12, the most significant verses for Melville's allegory, Hagar was cast off after the birth of Isaac, who inherited the covenant of the Lord instead of his older half-brother. Melville shapes his allegory to the Biblical Ishmael as follows: And so the name points to a Biblical analogy that marks Ishmael as the prototype of ""wanderer and outcast,"" the man set at odds with his fellows. Wright says that all Melville's heroes—with the exception of Benito Cereno and Billy Budd—are"
"his ideas. Tosin Abasi, founder of rock band Animals as Leaders, claims that ""My Ishmael"" was an inspiration for the band's name. My Ishmael My Ishmael is a 1997 novel by Daniel Quinn: a followup to ""Ishmael"". With its time frame largely simultaneous with ""Ishmael"", its plot precedes the fictional events of its 1996 spiritual successor, ""The Story of B"". Like ""Ishmael"", ""My Ishmael"" largely revolves around a Socratic dialogue between the sapient gorilla, Ishmael, and a student, involving his philosophy regarding tribal society. Ishmael's pupil in ""My Ishmael"", however, is a twelve-year-old female protagonist, Julie Gerchak, and the plot"
"(2006), ""Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs"" (2007), ""Dinosaur Knights"" (2008), ""You Turkeys"" (2009), ""Just a Dog"" (2010) and ""Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel"" (2011). ""Don't Call Me Ishmeal"" won the 2008 South Australian Festival Award for Literature; the 2007 Children's Peace Prize; the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges Award in 2007; and was short-listed for the 2007 NSW Premier's Award and the 2007 CBCA Award for Older Readers. It was selected for the 2007 White Ravens festival at the Bologna Book Fair. The sequel, ""Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs"", was awarded a Notable"
"story but has died by the time of the main story. His family was killed in the Holocaust, during which he migrated to the United States. While visiting a menagerie, he comes across a gorilla called Goliath (Ishmael's given alias at the menagerie). Sokolow buys Ishmael from the zoo and after he figures out that he and Ishmael can mentally speak to each other, the two study a vast array of subjects together. He is the one who gives the gorilla the new name of ""Ishmael"". Daughter of Walter Sokolow. She becomes Ishmael's benefactor after her father dies. She supports"
"""Makora"" in the ""Star Trek"" episode ""The Apple."" Ishmael (Star Trek) Ishmael is a novel by Barbara Hambly, set in the ""Star Trek"" fictional universe. Spock travels back to the time and place of ""Here Come the Brides"", a 1968-70 ABC television series loosely based upon Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to 1860s Seattle by importing the marriageable Mercer Girls from the war-ravaged East Coast of the United States. The show's premise was that eldest brother Jason Bolt bet his entire logging operation that he could persuade one hundred marriageable ladies to come to Seattle, and that all of"
"as a ""bit of an homage"" to the opening line of Moby Dick, ""Call me Ishmael."" The abandoned building in the novel was inspired by a real building located on a ""sludgy river gully"" near the Tyne, which has been turned into Seven Stories, an attraction that promotes literature. The novel is told from the first person, the first sentence being, ""My name is Erin Law."" The author then introduces the other characters, and indeed, tells the entire story, through her. Erin lives at Whitegates, a home for ""damaged children"". Erin's father was a foreign sailor who left her mother"
"the 90th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Chalamet), Best Original Song (""Mystery of Love"" by Sufjan Stevens), and Best Adapted Screenplay (James Ivory), winning the latter. The audiobook was read in 2017 by Hammer and published by Macmillan Publishers. Call Me by Your Name (novel) Call Me by Your Name is a 2007 novel by American writer André Aciman that centers on a blossoming romantic relationship between an intellectually precocious and curious 17-year-old American-Italian Jewish boy named Elio Perlman and a visiting 24-year-old American Jewish scholar named Oliver in 1980s Italy. The novel chronicles their"
"My Ishmael My Ishmael is a 1997 novel by Daniel Quinn: a followup to ""Ishmael"". With its time frame largely simultaneous with ""Ishmael"", its plot precedes the fictional events of its 1996 spiritual successor, ""The Story of B"". Like ""Ishmael"", ""My Ishmael"" largely revolves around a Socratic dialogue between the sapient gorilla, Ishmael, and a student, involving his philosophy regarding tribal society. Ishmael's pupil in ""My Ishmael"", however, is a twelve-year-old female protagonist, Julie Gerchak, and the plot details not only her visits to Ishmael but also her journey to Africa in order to prepare Ishmael's return to the wilds"
"evil, the ocean, and the very universe itself. Yet the symbolism of the White Whale is deliberately enigmatic, and its inscrutability is a deliberate challenge to the reader. Ishmael describes the whale’s forehead as having wrinkles and scars on it that look like hieroglyphics. He muses on the difficulty of understanding what he saw: Moby Dick (whale) Moby Dick is a fictional sperm whale who is the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. Melville based the fictional whale partially on a real albino whale of that period called Mocha Dick. Ishmael describes Moby Dick as"
"Ishmael (Star Trek) Ishmael is a novel by Barbara Hambly, set in the ""Star Trek"" fictional universe. Spock travels back to the time and place of ""Here Come the Brides"", a 1968-70 ABC television series loosely based upon Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to 1860s Seattle by importing the marriageable Mercer Girls from the war-ravaged East Coast of the United States. The show's premise was that eldest brother Jason Bolt bet his entire logging operation that he could persuade one hundred marriageable ladies to come to Seattle, and that all of them would be married or engaged within one"
"Ishmael for a span of time, but her death ends Ishmael's financial support. The end credits for the 1999 film ""Instinct"", starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr., indicate that it is inspired by ""Ishmael"". Daniel Quinn did not approve of the script or movie before transferring the rights, which were transferred as part of the Turner Award, though he may have had some minor input on the script, though to a degree he personally considered trivial. The movie and book share no common story elements, and the philosophical connection to the book is reduced to some pictorial format and"
"be dead, turns up to confront him; but the fact that the first wife was a bigamist makes her marriage to Ishmael's father null and void and the marriage between his mother and father therefore valid. Ishmael, having a legitimate father, now can give Beatrice an honest name. Hearts of Youth Hearts of Youth is a lost 1921 American silent film based on the novel ""Ishmael"" by E. D. E. N. Southworth. The film was directed by Tom Miranda and Millard Webb, with Webb writing the adaption for the screen. The movie stars Harold Goodwin, Colin Kenny, and Iris Ashton,"
"Clarel Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes. ""Clarel"" is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the ""Iliad"", ""Aeneid"" and ""Paradise Lost""). As well as for its great length, ""Clarel"" is notable for being the major work of Melville's later years. Clarel, a young theology student whose belief has begun to waver, travels to Jerusalem to renew his faith in the sites and scenes of Jesus Christ's mortal ministry. He stays"
"the spotlight switched from Ahab to Ishmael. The first two film adaptations show ""the radical surgery that Hollywood performed on Herman Melville's masterpiece."" The first was a silent movie, ""The Sea Beast"", a romantic love story in which the character of Ahab (John Barrymore), is transformed into ""a handsome young sailor"" a New Bedford harpooner who has little in common with Ahab, not even his full name, which is extended to Ahab Ceeley. Though in the book Ahab has already lost his leg, in the film a ""crude papier mache monster"" bites it off. When the movie opened on Broadway"
"have drowned. Gardiner asks Greenhorn his name. Greenhorn replies: ""Call me Ishmael."" Moby-Dick (opera) Moby-Dick is an American opera in two acts, with music by Jake Heggie and libretto by Gene Scheer, adapted from Herman Melville's novel ""Moby-Dick"". The opera received its premiere at Dallas Opera in Dallas, Texas, on 30 April 2010. Heggie dedicated the opera to Stephen Sondheim. In 2005, Dallas Opera commissioned an opera from Heggie, intended for the company's inaugural season in the Winspear Opera House in 2010. In consultation with Terrence McNally, Heggie suggested ""Moby-Dick"" as the subject. Subsequently, Dallas Opera shared this commission jointly"
"(published in 1992), ""The Story of B"" (1996), and ""My Ishmael"" (1997). Much of the chronology remains ambiguous in the former two, though is specified in much more detail in ""My Ishmael"". Ishmael (novel) Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and explores themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe. Largely framed as a Socratic conversation between two characters, ""Ishmael"" aims at exposing that several widely accepted assumptions of modern society, such as human supremacy, are actually cultural myths that produce catastrophic consequences for humankind and the environment."
"until his death of a kidney condition in 1927. Keable's most famous publication was his first novel, ""Simon Called Peter"", but he produced a prodigious literary output, spanning theological tracts through poetry to travel guides. ""Simon Called Peter""'s sequel, ""Recompense"", was made into a film, and his later novels all attracted substantial attention. His writings generally met with much greater popular than critical approbation, and ""Simon Called Peter"" was sufficiently incendiary to be banned. The book nonetheless became a contemporary best-seller. Much of Keable's fiction contained autobiographical elements, often centring on his attitudes toward and experience of the Christian religious"
"new introductory story Melville had written for it, ""The Piazza,"" and was published as ""The Piazza Tales"", with five previously published stories, including ""Bartleby, the Scrivener"" and ""Benito Cereno."" On March 2, 1855, Frances (Fanny) was born, the Melvilles' fourth child. In this period his book ""Israel Potter"" was published. The writing of ""The Confidence-Man"" put great strain on Melville, leading Sam Shaw, a nephew of Lizzie, to write to his uncle Lemuel Shaw, ""Herman I hope has had no more of those ugly attacks""—a reference to what Robertson-Lorant calls ""the bouts of rheumatism and sciatica that plagued Melville."" Melville's"
"Ishmael (novel) Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and explores themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe. Largely framed as a Socratic conversation between two characters, ""Ishmael"" aims at exposing that several widely accepted assumptions of modern society, such as human supremacy, are actually cultural myths that produce catastrophic consequences for humankind and the environment. The novel was awarded the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991, a year before its formal publication. ""Ishmael"" ultimately comprises a loose trilogy, including a 1996 spiritual sequel, ""The Story of"
"publisher to become a freelance writer. He is best known for his book ""Ishmael"" (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. ""Ishmael"" became the first of a loose trilogy of novels by Quinn, including ""The Story of B"" and ""My Ishmael"", all of which brought increasing fame to Quinn throughout the 1990s. He became a well-known author to followers of the environmental, simple living, and anarchist movements, although he did not strongly self-identify with any of these. Quinn traveled widely to lecture and discuss his books. While response to ""Ishmael"" was mostly very positive, Quinn's ideas have"
"Ishmael going insane and becoming delusional. The Haj The Haj is a novel published in 1984 by American author Leon Uris about a Palestinian Arab family caught up in the area's historic events of the 1920s–1950s as witnessed by Ishmael, the youngest son. The story begins in 1922 when Ibrahim, Ishmael's father, takes over the position of muktar from his dying father in the relatively isolated village of Tabah in the Ajalon Valley, just off the main road leading to Jerusalem from Jaffa. The book then goes on to show how the family is affected by the proximity of nearby"
"novel by Herman Melville, the 19th century novelist who wrote ""Moby-Dick"" and ""Billy Budd"". She also jokingly asks whether Kurt is related to Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, by saying: """"Oh my goodness what an unfortunate name. Hopefully no relation."""" Diane, a liberal, is taken aback by the conservative Kurt's enthusiasm for Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. As a joke, Kurt sends her a copy of Palin's 2009 memoir, """". She in turn sends him the parody book ""Going Rouge: A Candid Look Inside The Mind Of Political Conservative Sarah Palin"","
"this is true"" in the sophisticated Jamesian sense of the technique. Yet Bezanson insists that it would be a mistake ""to think the narrator indifferent to how his tale is told,"" because the narrator's ""struggle"" with the shaping of his narrative, ""under constant discussion, is itself one of the major themes of the book."" Ishmael uses, among other genres and styles, a sermon, a dream, a comic set-piece, a midnight ballet, a meditation, an emblematic reading. During the early decades of the Melville revival, Ishmael was often confused with Melville, whose works were perceived as autobiography. The critic F.O. Matthiessen"
"an angel tells the pregnant Hagar to name her child Ishmael and prophesies, ""His hand would be over everyone, and the hand of everyone would be against him. His brethren would rule over all the lands."" Ibn Kathir comments that this foretells of Muhammad's leadership. Ishmael and Hagar being taken to Mecca by Abraham in Islamic texts is an important part in the story of Ishmael, as it brings the focus to Mecca and is the beginning of Mecca's sanctification as a holy area. Islamic tradition says Abraham was ordered by God to take Hagar and Ishmael to Mecca, and"