Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Why Read Moby-Dick?




Book menu for Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick

ISBN of edition I read: 9780670022991 (hardcover)

Food mentioned in Why Read Moby-Dick?:
Chowder, 23

Books/Authors mentioned in Why Read Moby-Dick?:
William Shakespeare, 3, 5, 6, 44, 61-62, 70
     MacBeth, 85
     King Lear, 85 
John Milton, 3
Virgil, 3
Washington Irving, 4, 5
James Fenimore Cooper, 4, 5
William Cullen Bryant, 4
Edgar Allan Poe, 4
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 4, 5
Charles Dickens, 5
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 5
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 5, 43, 66, 70, 107, 115, 118, 121, 123
     The Scarlet Letter , 5, 43
     The House of the Seven Gables, 5, 44
     Mosses from an Old Manse, 44, 124-125
Joseph Conrad, 6
William Faulkner, 7
Ernest Hemingway, 7
John Steinbeck, 7
     The Grapes of Wrath, 7
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby  / F. Scott Fitzgerald, 8
The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger, 15
Herman Melville
     Pierre, 49, 122
     Redburn, His First Voyage, 66
     White-Jacket, 66
     Billy Budd, 78, 126
     Typee, 95
Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman, 87
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex / Owen Chase, 101
Friedrich Schiller, 126

Movies mentioned in Why Read Moby-Dick?:
Jaws, 33
This is Spinal Tap, 40  

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