Thursday 18 October 2012

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick": 10 most memorable lines

While Herman Melville lived, little attention was paid to "Moby Dick." When the ambitious, electric, darkly philosophical story of a mad sea captain's obsession with an albino whale was published in 1851, most of the world ignored it. It wasn't until the 1920s ? a few decades after Melville's 1891 death ? that literary historians began to take note. Here are 10 of the lines most memorably associated with the book now called a masterwork of world literature.? ? ?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/npvKeBRIfRw/Herman-Melville-s-Moby-Dick-10-most-memorable-lines

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