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Humanities Book Group

Moby-Dick

Reading discussion on "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. Discussion led by: Vikki Deakin, PhD, WSU.

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Thursday, 7 Nov 2024, 7 p.m. – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Scholar: Vikki Deakin, PhD, WSU. Moby-Dick By Melville, Herman Editor Blum, Hester 2022-08 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780198853695 CHECK CATALOG "It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this." Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, …More

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