Not until the early 20th century was Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick first recognized as a literary masterpiece and touted as a cornerstone of modern American literature. Etching of Joseph O.

When you think of Herman Melville, you probably think of his Great American Novel, Moby Dick, being assigned reading in high school English class. But during his life, people mostly knew Melville as ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is set to launch its 30th annual Moby-Dick Marathon weekend with a special dinner and lecture. The event, scheduled for 5:15 p.m. Jan. 2, will take place in the Harbor ...

NEW BEDFORD — A local short film on the festival circuit reimagines how Herman Melville's epic "Moby-Dick" might've landed its title. At first Melville's book was titled "The Whale," then a month ...

NEW BEDFORD — The 27th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon is returning to the New Bedford Whaling Museum live for the first time since 2020, for a unique 25-hour read-a-thon of Herman Melville’s literary ...

Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) won the 1961 National Book Award for “The City in History,” the culmination of decades-long studies of urban civilization and technology. His 1929 biography of Herman ...

Knopf. 415 pp. $30 The life and afterlife of Herman Melville (1819-1891) present the greatest illustration in American literature, perhaps in world literature, of the Psalm "The same stone which the ...

In the first article of this series, I described how Herman Melville was born into a mercantile family which fell on hard times, his adventures as a seaman and harpooner in the Pacific as a young man, ...