Why Read Moby-Dick

“Hawthorne and His Mosses.” In The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839–1860 . Edited by Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, G. Thomas Tanselle, et al. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the New-berry Library, 1987.
    â€”——. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale . 1851; New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
    Metcalf, Eleanor Melville. Herman Melville: Cycle and Epicycle . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953.
    Olson, Charles. Call Me Ishmael . 1947; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
    Parker, Hershel. Herman Melville: A Biography . 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 and 2002.
    Philbrick, Nathaniel. “At Sea in the Tide Pool: The Whaling Town and America in Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent and Travels with Charley .” In Steinbeck and the Environment . Edited by Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
    â€”——. “ ‘ Every Wave Is a Fortune’: Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon.” New England Quarterly, September 1993.
    â€”——. Foreword to Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
    â€”——. “Hawthorne, Maria Mitchell, and Melville’s ‘After the Pleasure Party.’ ” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 37, no. 4 (1991).
    â€”——. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Viking, 2000.
    â€”——. “A Window on the Prey: The Hunter Sees a Human Face in Hemingway’s ‘After the Storm’ and Melville’s ‘The Grand Armada.’ ” Hemingway Review (Fall 1994).

ALSO BY NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
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