Thursday, October 18, 2012

Herman Melville books

  • Herman Melville books: At first, 'Moby Dick' was a total flop

    Google celebrated the 161st anniversary of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" on Thursday. The book holds a very important place in English literature.

    www.csmonitor.com

  • Herman Melville book 'Moby-Dick' on screen stretches from Gregory Peck to ...

    You doubtless know the classic beginning line, "Call me Ishmael," and the Herman Melville book details that follow: the main character, sailor Ishmael; the ship he travels on, the boat known as the Pequod; the mysterious Captain Ahab and his obsession ...

    www.csmonitor.com

  • Herman Melville books: Remembering the author of 'Moby Dick'

    The Google homepage today depicts a white whale, a choppy sea, and a skiff captained by a one-legged harpooner. The doodle, of course, is an homage to "Moby Dick," which was first published 161 years ago, by Herman Melville. So who was Melville, ...

    www.csmonitor.com

  • Google's Moby Dick Logo Takes You To Herman Melville Books Knowledge Graph

    (1) Google purposely is taking searches who click on the logo to a search result for [Herman Melville books] which brings up the Google Knowledge Graph Carousel.

    searchengineland.com

  • Herman Melville books celebrated in Google Doodle on 161st anniversary of ...

    Clicking the doodle brings users to a search for "Herman Melville books", which showcases the Knowledge Graph Google began rolling out earlier this year.

    www.siliconrepublic.com

  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: leviathan greatness

    It might, as Google so kindly points out with another of its random-anniversary doodles this morning, be 161 years since Moby-Dick was published in the UK, but the novel still seems to be everywhere.

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Herman Melville Gets The Google Doodle Treatment

    Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, is the subject of a new Google. Actually the book itself is really the subject, as a mouse-over indicates (not to mention the image itself), but if you click on the doodle, you're taken to Google's search ...

    www.webpronews.com

  • Herman Melville Google doodle marks 161st anniversary of Moby-Dick

    Herman Melville had written Typee and Omoo before he wrote, what he believed was his masterpiece, Moby-Dick. He was shocked by the less-than-flattering reception the book received. One critic described it as "[A]n ill-compounded mixture of romance and ...

    gadgets.ndtv.com

  • Moby-Dick's Herman Melville honoured with Google Doodle

    Herman Melville was born in New York city on August 1, 1819. He was best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), and after a fast-blooming literary success in ...

    www.thenewstribe.com

  • Google marks 161st anniversary of Herman Melville Moby-Dick

    The Wikipedia site have a complete review about Herman Melville and Moby-Dick. The Wikipedia have a complete review of the book, including the important characters in the Novel and Illustrations from the book. There have also been several movies ...

    www.thenewstribe.com

  • Melville on the Web: Moby Dick Big Read

    Those of us who have always felt guilty about never being able to read Herman Melville's Moby Dick, perhaps the most classic of classic American novels, from cover to cover and excused that failure by lamenting its excessive length and those endless ...

    www.seattlepi.com

  • The Blagger's Guide To: Moby Dick

    Some 161 years after its first publication, Herman Melville's Moby Dick is proving popular in a very modern format. Hosted by ... It may be considered a great American novel, but the book was conceived during Melville's visit to London in 1849. He ...

    www.independent.co.uk

  • Herman Melville - Moby-Dick Google Doodle

    Herman Melville The focus of today's Google Doodle is on Herman Melville who is best known for his novel "Moby-Dick".

    3d-car-shows.com

  • Book buzz: New fiction from John Grisham

    ... magazine hits stands, featuring an exclusive piece of short fiction from Grisham entitled "Tranquility." Moby-Dick birthday: Have you checked out today's Google Doodle celebrating the 161th anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick?

    www.usatoday.com

  • The great shroud of the sea rolled on – reading Moby-Dick

    In a nutshell, mobydickbigread.com was founded to recast the aesthetic of Moby-Dick, because whacking great stretches of the book are very boring and most people skip them. Hence ... Herman Melville has his moments. And he has his half-hours. And he ...

    blogs.spectator.co.uk

  • Are you a fast-fish or are you a loose-fish?

    One of my favorite books is "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, which is unfortunate because I rarely get to discuss it with anyone.

    www.albertleatribune.com

  • Pittsfield's 'Call Me Melville' Concludes Columbus Day

    The summerlong celebration of Pittsfield's own Herman Melville featured an array of events based around Melville's life and his literary masterpiece "Moby-Dick.

    www.iberkshires.com

  • David Cameron records chapter of Moby-Dick for website

    "I'm sure Herman Melville would be amazed at this extraordinary new interpretation of his thought-provoking and prophetic book. "This is a way of introducing his book to a new audience and is something people can pick up as and when they choose - it is ...

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Occupy Literature: New York from Melville to the Beats

    In Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853), the color of Herman Melville's vision of Wall Street, though tempered by "the heat of business" and the fuss and bustle of a finance-based workaday world, is a shabby gray, the color of an ...

    www.popmatters.com

  • ALL ABOUT BOOKS – FINE, RARE, & COLLECTIBLE

    ALL ABOUT BOOKS - FINE, RARE, & COLLECTIBLE. Herman Melville - another great American writer. By DAN MAXEY. Our focus today is Herman Melville, whom many regard as America's greatest writer ever. Numerous critics rank him right along with ...

    www.news-reporter.com

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