HERMAN MELVILLE-2  share 17 hours ago Melville escaped aboard a whaler, and spent the next several years at sea, including a year with the US Navy. As a writer, his work flowed from his own interesting and unusual experiences, and the maritime stories he heard as a child and during his years as a sailor, where he’d swapped yarns with ma ... Techology Tomorrow... - altael.net |
| HERMAN MELVILLE share 17 hours ago Born in New York City, Herman Melville worked as a cabin boy on the Highlander, a merchant Vessel bound for Liverpool at age 18. His later book, Redburn (1849) offered an account of his first voyage to Liverpool, and his first impressions of the life of a sailor and of his observations of English li ... Techology Tomorrow... - altael.net |
| Open Letters Monthly: Salman Rushdie, Katharine Hepburn, and the British ... share 4 days ago by Gayla The July Open Letters Monthly has been posted, and as usual it's full of good stuff: Irma Heldman calls Stieg Larsson's protagonist in The Girl Who Played with Fire, Lisbest Salander, "one of the most intriguing, mesmerizing, addictive, original female characters ever created." (I still haven't gott ... Beautiful Screaming Lady - beautifulscreaminglady.blogspot.com · Rank: 101,771 ·  2 references |
| ‘Bartleby, el escribiente’, de Herman Melville share 4 days ago by Luís Martínez González La vida del escritor americano Herman Melville (Nueva York, 1819-1891) es por sí misma una extraordinaria novela de aventuras. A los diecinueve años, se enroló como marino, realizando diversos viajes por el Pacífico. De regreso, trabajó como profesor. Pero tardó poco tiempo en resurgir su afán avent ... LeerGratis.com - leergratis.com · Rank: 5,205 · 159 references |
| Quotes from Bishop, Hayden, Olson, and Melville share 5 days ago by Ryan McCarl From The Man-Moth He thinks the moon is a small hole at the top of the sky, proving the sky quite useless for protection. --Elizabeth Bishop From Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday Oh who and oh who will sing Jesus down to help with struggling and doing without and being colored all through blue ... Ryan McCarl - ryanmccarl.blogspot.com · 3 references |
| Nantucket Part 5 share 5 days ago by gatorpreservationist Thursday, Day 11, included a lecture on authenticity, one of my least favorite topics because it’s so subjective. Everyone has a different opinion on it, and who’s to say what’s right? A conversation starter used in class was whether trees blocking the view of a mountain from Herman Melville’s forme ... Gator Preservationist - gatorpreservationist.wordpress.com |
| Readings from Melville's "Moby-Dick" share 6 days ago by Ryan McCarl But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence. ...If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to thei ... Ryan McCarl - ryanmccarl.blogspot.com · 3 references |
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