Tag: classics
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National Library Week!
So here’s the deal: This week is National Library Week! Having been a bookish kid, a homeschooled kid, and a kid who grew up without a lot of resources, the library was always an amazing place to me. Now is my chance to help give back (and to one of the libraries I frequented the…
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Mondays with Moby: Chapter Three
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. We’re now taken on a tour of the Spouter-Inn, boasting dark, “besmoked” paintings of whales attempting to impale themselves, along with all manner of saws and harpoons and other menacing…
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Mondays with Moby: Chapter Two
I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpetbag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. First off, I confess that I have always wanted to own a carpetbag. That is all. Ishmael has now set off on his journey, and sets a course for New Bedford (In…
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Mondays with Moby: Chapter One
I’ve heard a good deal of not-too-flattering things about Moby-Dick. Even as a lover of classic works of fiction, it seemed like Herman Melville’s most famous novel (Quick! Name another one of his published works in the next three seconds! No cheating!) was one of the most polarizing I had ever come across. It’s a…