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Moby-Dick, or The Whale Herman Melville, 1851

Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It's also available at the Johnson County Library as a free downloadable audiobook. Download the audiobook version.

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Reading Moby-Dick
Log & line
Posted Mar 02, 2010 by ericareynolds1020
Where are we all at on the voyage? Want to talk about the book as a whole? Various passages? Parts that are perplexing? Beautiful? Infuriating? I have to recommend listening to Moby-Dick via audiobook. This is the first time I’ve done that, and while I’ve read the book many times, I never really experienced the characters–particularly [...]
Thoughts on Pip?
Posted Feb 06, 2010 by ericareynolds1020
Of all the characters in Moby-Dick, an argument can be made that Pip is one of the most important. Bright and goodnatured, Pip survives a most terrible event, and is obviously never the same after he is left behind to confront the infinite indifference of the ocean, and of the world. “The sea had jeeringly kept [...]
Whiteness of the Whale?
Posted Jan 24, 2010 by ericareynolds1020
Any comments on this chapter? Of all the chapters, this one is particularly wild and over-the-top. In amazing ways. Any thoughts?

Connect with a Classic: Reading Moby-Dick

Captain Ahab's Fine Seafood Available at the Johnson County LibraryAs part of the Johnson County Library's advertizing campaign featuring fictional delivery trucks of classic characters, we are featuring a Moby-Dick literary event and online book discussion.

Our discussion will launch to the blogosphere on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010— the same date that Herman Melville set sail on the whaling ship, The Acushnet in 1841.

Read and discuss Melville's timeless classic online throughout January, February and March. Because it's all online, you can read, post, and comment as your schedule permits. Readers everywhere are welcome.

Want to join the online discussion of Moby-Dick? 
Contact Web Content Manager Erica Reynolds.

Special Presentation: Why Moby-Dick is Still the Great American Novel
Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Schultz
Date: Rescheduled for Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 (Due to the weather)
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Central Resource Library
Renowned Melville expert Dr. Elizabeth Schultz discusses why Moby-Dick, published in 1851, remains the great American novel. This program will kick-off the Library’s all-online Moby-Dick book discussion and will be followed by a hands-on tutorial on how to easily join and participate in the online discussion occurring Jan. 3 through March 31, 2010.
Register Here

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About the Presenter
Elizabeth Schultz, Professor Emerita of English, retired in 2001 from the University of Kansas where she was the Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professor. Dr. Schultz is the author of Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth Century American Art (1995) and has published extensively in the fields of African American fiction and autobiography, nineteenth-century American fiction, American women's writing, and Japanese culture in addition to poetry, short stories, and essays on nature. Recent publications include Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake (2001), Conversations: Art Into Poetry at the Spencer Museum of Art (2006) and Her Voice (Woodley Press, 2008). She was founder of the Melville Society Cultural Project in New Bedford, Massachusetts. 

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.” ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

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