Today, Moby Dick’s place in the literary canon is as weighty as its titular antagonist, but upon its release in 1851, the book barely made a ripple. “This is an odd book, professing to be a ...

November 14, 1851, marked the first day that the American public could purchase Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, the latest novel by the modestly successful author Herman Melville, for $1.50 (around $60 ...

The novel’s central conceit is that Ishmael was not just the sole survivor of the Pequod’s ill-fated voyage but also the man who actually wrote “Moby-Dick.” "Wild and Distant Seas" by Tara ...

The last line of "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville reflects on the ship Rachel's search for its missing crew, connecting with the themes of loss and tragedy in the novel. It indirectly relates to the ...

The film, called “Moby Dick; or, The Whale,” casts two of the novel’s main characters, Ishmael and Queequeg, as lovers and the ship’s crew as a community that has partly transcended gender ...

the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s landmark 1851 novel. And to get your ...

NKU Regents Professor of English Bob Wallace, Ph.D., has been studying and teaching "Moby-Dick" since the mid-1970s. He specializes in artwork related to the novel, making him "probably one of the ...

“Ding!” — become brief, euphonious hollers. Not all adaptations of “Moby-Dick” are faithful to the disposition of the novel. The British composer Robert Longden and the librettist ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly ...

“In the novel, Ishmael is telling a story that happened ... Ahab, who has lost a leg in a prior encounter with Moby-Dick, has to hobble on a wooden prosthesis. And Greenhorn—finally named ...

At the Met, a visually stunning ‘Moby-Dick’ surfaces but never goes deep. Composer Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s classic novel gets an expanded treatment in a Metropolitan ...