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	Moby-Dick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moby Dick is a livid white sperm whale who has been attacked by multiple whaling ships, but has been able to destroy his attackers.
		His dreams contain a great deal of Moby-Dick imagery, and when he and his companions pass through a region in which their thoughts become reality, his cousin Phoney suddenly gains a peg-leg, a facial scar and a costume like Ahab's.
		The musician Moby is a descendant of Herman Melville.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moby_Dick (3297 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Moby Dick
		The title character of Moby Dick was inspired by an article in Knickerbocker magazine in May 1839 entitled "Mocha Dick: or the White Whale of the Pacific." The author of this article, Jeremiah Reynolds, detailed the capture of a giant sperm whale legendary among whalers for its vicious attacks on ships.
		The novel Moby Dick was the sixth novel published by Herman Melville, a landmark of American literature that mixed a number of literary styles including a fictional adventure story, historical detail and even scientific discussion.
		He intended Moby Dick as a return to the type of adventure stories such as Typee and Omoo that made his reputation, but the novel instead took a different turn.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/moby/about.html (478 words)

	§24. "Moby Dick". VII. Fiction II. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
		Moby Dick, the strange, fierce white whale that Captain Ahab pursues with such relentless fury, was already a legend among the whalers, who knew him as “Mocha Dick.” 12 It remained for Melville to lend some kind of poetic or moral significance to a struggle ordinarily conducted for no cause but profit.
		As he handles the story, Ahab, who has lost a leg in the jaws of the whale, is driven by a wild desire for revenge which has maddened him and which makes him identify Moby Dick with the very spirit of evil and hatred.
		Too irregular, too bizarre, perhaps, ever to win the widest suffrage, the immense originality of Moby Dick must warrant the claim of its admirers that it belongs with the greatest sea romances in the whole literature of the world.
	www2.bartleby.com /225/1624.html (610 words)

	Moby Dick Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moby Dick Council originally had two camps: Camp Cachalot was the camp for Cachalot Council, and Camp Noquochoke was the camp for Massasoit Council.
		In 2001, Moby Dick Council suffered a similar fate, and merged with the Narragansett Council of Rhode Island, much to the chagrin of many old-timers of both the smaller councils and the larger Moby Dick Council.
		The Moby Dick Council (also known as Moby Dick Council of Mass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moby_Dick_Council (238 words)

	Enjoying "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
		Moby Dick was written in an era in which books commonly exhorted people to conventional morality.
		Moby Dick differs from other books, particularly from its time, in offering a host of different perspectives without any single moral.
		The whalemen believe that Moby Dick can be in several places at once, or has supernatural means of travel deep beneath the ocean (ch.
	www.pathguy.com /mobydick.htm (1767 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Moby Dick
		Moby Dick has just enough of this kind of footage to give it the feeling of 'being there.' There is a lot of process work of one kind or another, plus some forced cutaways to massed seagulls, that sometimes work, and sometimes don't.
		Moby Dick was shot in Ireland and off Portugal, and is one of those films where you can tell a lot of of it was actually shot at sea.
		Moby Dick is a Moulin Production, perhaps made with European profits from his earlier success Moulin Rouge, proving that when Huston had a personal project, he sometimes would throw his own money into it as well.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s267moby.html (1656 words)

	Moby-Dick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moby Dick is a livid white sperm whale who has been attacked by multiple whaling ships, but has been able to destroy his attackers.
		The musician Moby is a descendant of Herman Melville.
		Moby Duck is a character created for Disney's line of comic books, a relative of Donald and the other ducks in the Disney mythos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moby_Dick (3042 words)

	SparkNotes: Moby-Dick: Plot Overview
		He announces his desire to pursue and kill Moby Dick, the legendary great white whale who took his leg, because he sees this whale as the embodiment of evil.
		Ahab’s fervent desire to find and destroy Moby Dick continues to intensify, and the mad Pip is now his constant companion.
		Moby Dick rams the Pequod and sinks it.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/mobydick/summary.html (1057 words)

	Moby Dick Summary
		He alone was rescued to tell the tale of Moby Dick, Ahab, and the Pequod, which, "like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her...
		It is Moby Dick!'" The voice was that of Ahab himself, whose eyes were dim but whose passion was aflame.
		The old sailor gave Ahab still another grim warning that it was foolish to pursue Moby Dick; but, pressed, the Yankee captain finally revealed the coordinates of the whale's last sighting.
	www.awerty.com /moby2.html (1655 words)

	Moby Dick by Herman Melville: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		Moby Dick was an interesting read for me as I am an outdoorsman/surfer/fisherman/ with an interest in whales and wildlife in general.
		Moby Dick abounds with satire and philisophical commentaries.
		Quite simply, Moby Dick supercedes all other novels i have read.
	www.online-literature.com /melville/mobydick (4682 words)

	Moby Dick Study Guide
		Moby Dick is a story told on two levels: a great sea adventure and a story about man’s relationship to the universe.
		He published Moby Dick in 1851, at a time when the American whaling fleet numbered over 700 ships and exemplified the country’s confidence to expand its influence throughout the world.
		Ahab’s harpooners hit Moby Dick for the _____________ time when Moby Dick surfaces very close to the harpoon boat.
	www.studyguide.org /moby_dick.htm (966 words)

	Ishmael (Moby-Dick) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ishmael is the narrator (and arguably the protagonist) of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U.S. author Herman Melville.
		In Moby-Dick Ishmael does not comment on the significance of his own name, but he does refer to himself by that name several times later in the book.
		Ishmael introduces himself in the opening sentence of the novel with the well-known line "Call me Ishmael." The name Ishmael is Biblical in origin: In Genesis, Ishmael was the son of Abraham by the servant Hagar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ishmael_(Moby-Dick) (486 words)

	moby10b.txt
		MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY.
		The Project Gutenberg Etext of Moby Dick, by Herman Melville #3 in our series by Herman Melville This Project Gutenberg version of Moby Dick is based on a combination of the etext from the ERIS project at Virginia Tech and another from Project Gutenberg's archives, as compared to a public-domain hard copy.
		FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTSVer.04.29.93END* This etext was prepared by Daniel Lazarus and Jonesey Notes on this etext of Moby Dick: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext01/moby10b.txt (19232 words)

	Moby Dick
		Moby Dick were formed in 1968, with bassist Enzo Petrone coming from I Volti di Pietra, a legendary group from Naples that never recorded anything and also gave birth to Osanna.
		A recent release, hence very easy to find, Moby Dick is housed in a nice gatefold textured cover and contains a bonus 7" three-track EP with the same cover design as the album.
		They had a good live activity throughout their five-year career, having briefly in their line-up singer Marco Cecioni from Balletto di Bronzo and percussionist Toni Esposito who played on Alan Sorrenti's first albums and later had a good solo career.
	www.italianprog.com /a_mobydick.htm (314 words)

	Moby Dick
		Moby was president of the Astrological Society of Hawaii, and he lectured at astrology conferences as well as various local clubs and civic organizations.
		His son, astrologer Jayj Jacobs, wrote in Mercury Hour at the time of his death, "Moby did a lot for astrology, partly by getting people to look at it with an open-minded skepticism, to question authority, and to rely on experience.
		A Methodist minister, Moby wrote a book of answers to the perennial question of how astrology and religion could be reconciled, called "Astrology's Pew in Church".
	solsticepoint.com /astrologersmemorial/jacobs.html (560 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Moby Dick: DVD
		MOBY DICK was obviously a very good movie which presented several obstacles for director John Huston.
		To put Moby Dick, the enormous whale created by the pen of Herman Melville, on the wide screen had been an almost impossible undertaking until 1956, when John Huston's Moby Dick appeared.
		Captain Ahab is hell bent on destroying a white whale, known as Moby Dick, that had maimed him on a previous whale hunt.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000096KKL (1023 words)

	Read Moby Dick along with teep
		Moby Dick is used to teach literary interpretation because there's a lot of stuff you can get from the book (foreshadowing, symbolism, etc.) and it's all very obvious.
		This came about because I was reading Moby Dick with a friend from a mailing list, Laine, who had to read it for school.
		She didn't want to go it alone, so I offered to read along and provide my literary fu, such as it is. I have done so, in chunks of about thirteen chapters at a time.
	www.bedford.net /teep/moby1.htm (350 words)

	Amazon.ca: Moby Dick : Video
		Moby Dick is a very exciting classical tale, retold in a movie starring Gregory Peck and Richard Basehart.
		There are so many things right about this 1956 production of Moby Dick, it's a shame it is remembered for the one (debatable) thing wrong with it.
		The director also seems very experienced, and his talent really shows in the fight scenes between Moby Dick and the crew in boats.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6304196911 (680 words)

	Amazon.com: Moby-Dick (Bantam Classic): Books: Herman Melville
		Moby Dick is not a perfect book in the sense than a Henry James novel might be perfect.
		To best appreciate Moby Dick read it with a friend, or with a class, someone to discuss the novel with will give you more insight and make you think about the novel.
		Read essays on Moby Dick before you read the novel, they will show you what to look for and get you interested in the symbolism and the deeper meaning.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553213113?v=glance (2910 words)

	New Bedford Whaling Museum Research
		Twelve years before Moby-Dick, a U.S. naval officer wrote an article, "Mocha Dick: The White Whale of the Pacific," in which he described a great whale that was "white as wool." When the Mocha Dick of this tale was captured, the crew found twenty harpoons in his body from previous attempts to kill him.
		Bentley, the foremost publisher of the "three-decker," gave The Whale and unusually elaborate physical dress: deep-blue cloth covers, and white spines decorated with gold whales (unfortunately they were right whales, not sperm whales like Moby Dick).
		It is difficult to understand why he gave such lavish treatment to a work which was so different from typical three-decker fiction and for which he expected small sales.
	www.whalingmuseum.org /kendall/amwhale/am_mobydick.html (1118 words)

	Welcome to mobysonline.com
		""nere she blows!' at Moby Dick doesn't refer to a whale, but to the pita bread.
		Moby Dick in Arlington, 3000 Washington Blvd. Arlington, VA (Jefferson Building) Tel.: 703- 465- 1600
		"Their name may be odd, but Moby Dick Kabob house knows how to cook."
	www.mobysonline.com (183 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Moby Dick -
		The fact that Moby Dick himself makes no appearance here is less of a disappointment than you would think; the play's total reliance on imagination allows us to accept the whale's presence without ever seeing him.
		Now we can say, "Look, it beckons!" Moby Dick, in a tight, spare adaptation by Julian Rad and under the exciting, imaginative direction by Hilary Adams, is beckoning audiences to the Ohio Theater.
		Attempts at adapting Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick to the screen and the stage have generally met with about as much success as Ahab had with the great white whale.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=3875 (915 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics): Books
		Rewrite Ishmael or Queequeg as a woman, make Moby Dick an alien whale from outer space, just do whatever it takes to make a new generation enjoy one of the greatest stories ever told, and see what storytelling used to be before television spoiled it all.
		The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas.
		Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140620621 (1008 words)

	Moby Dick (1956)
		I've always thought the point of Moby Dick is that the evil white whale who Ahab so personalizes and demonizes is just a whale doing his whale thing trying to stay alive.
		When John Huston was casting for Moby Dick he got to make it on condition that he get a name actor to play Ahab.
		Orson Welles was set to do his own adaption of Moby Dick and canceled his film when he heard his friend John Huston was doing Moby Dick.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0049513 (547 words)

	Title: "Moby Dick" - Topics: Literature/U.S.; Seafaring; U.S./1812 - 1860 & Massachusetts
		"Moby Dick" will give children a good idea of what life was like on a whaling ship in the early 1800s.
		to "Moby Dick" will help parents and teachers acquaint children with some of the symbolism of this important work of U.S. literature.
		Children who see the film should already be acquainted with the biblical stories of Jonah and the whale and of the prophet Elijah's conflict with King Ahab.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/moby-dick.html (475 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides Moby-Dick Herman Melville
		As relentlessly as Ahab chases Moby Dick, so Melville questions the nature of the interaction between the mind and the external world.
		Ahab believes that knowledge of Moby Dick, only achievable through literal confrontation, would give him access to a reality beyond human comprehension.
		559) Why does Starbuck fail to convince Ahab to give up his pursuit of Moby Dick ("The Symphony")?
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/moby_dick.html (1795 words)

	Moby Dick
		The final eight cues, from 'Lower The Boats' onward, end the score in grand style, building to a stirring climax in which the 'Moby Dick Theme' is performed in all its glory.
		If one was to be overly-critical, it is possible for Moby Dick to be considered just a touch too long.
		With a cameo from Gregory Peck as Father Mapple, who himself portrayed Ahab in John Huston's classic 1956 movie of the same name, and a great supporting turn from Ted Levine, Moby Dick was a resounding critical and commercial success.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /mobydicd.htm (438 words)

	Moby Dick
		Moby Dick is the umbrella for a variety of projects along the subject of ubiquitous computing and wireless communication.
		The Moby Dick project has been a joint European project (Esprit Long Term Research 20422) to develop and define the architecture of a new generation of mobile handheld computers.
		The design challenges lie primarily in the creation of a single architecture that allows the integration of security functions (e.g.
	wwwspa.cs.utwente.nl /~havinga/mobydick.html (160 words)

	Amazon.com: Moby Dick: Books: Herman Melville
		Ahab hunts Moby Dick because, in a previous hunt, Moby Dick amputated Ahab's leg in a failed attempt by Ahab to catch the white whale.
		As such MOBY DICK is as applicable to today's society and its concerns as it must have been to Melville's antebellum nineteenth century America.
		Ahab is so focused on catching and killing Moby Dick that he loses sight of his own welfare and the welfare of his men.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785819134?v=glance (1813 words)

	defective yeti: Read Moby Dick
		A couple of years ago, the Patrick Stewart "Moby Dick" film was on the tv, so I thought I'd give it a go (having tried to read the book in the past and failing miserably).
		The closest I have ever been to reading Moby Dick is getting fall-down drunk and reading passages from it at the top of my lungs in my best pirate brogue.
		I would tell you that I had read Moby Dick twice, once in High School and then again in College, and not only that, but I really enjoyed it, except for the Chapter on Cetology, but then you'd just call me a liar.
	www.defectiveyeti.com /archives/000674.html (4489 words)

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