Photo by Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum) Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On Aug. 1 ... One of the coolest objects in the Phillips collection is a book bound in white goat leather, circa ...

The event aims to celebrate the work of Herman Melville while also bringing together the ... During this time, she also began collecting photography books and spending hours in libraries surrounded by ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad If you go What: Lansingburgh Historical Society book sale When: 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday Where: Herman Melville House, corner of 1st Avenue and 114th ...

SELECTED POEMS OF HERMAN MELVILLE ... From this point Melville’s life darkened and turned inward. The reception of Moby-Dick was hardly the chief cause—the book itself is a darkening and ...

Buy it here. You can't gather any collection of literary gems concerning the sea and not choose Moby-Dick, which is one of those books that makes its own world. It's an exploration into the depths ...

Herman Melville ... and desperate for book learning. Pierre keeps a copy of “Hamlet” and Dante’s Inferno on his writing desk. “I have swam through libraries,” Melville wrote.

I have also been zu sehr viel anderswo engagiert." But meanwhile I have found time to read Herman Melville's books, and wish to thank THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW for introducing us to that ...

NEW BEDFORD — Aviary Books will be hosting their first Melville ... The event aims to celebrate the work of Herman Melville while also bringing together the community in a unique way.