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 ...

November 14, 1851, marked the first day that the American public could purchase Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, the latest novel by the modestly successful author Herman Melville, for $1.50 (around $60 ...

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On Aug. 1, 1819, the author who painstakingly crafted “Moby-Dick” came into the world — and, in so many ways, he’s never left.

The Essex began its final journey in August 1819, departing its home island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, for the ...

Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live in ...

The former Blue Plaque home of American author Herman Melville, where he wrote early drafts of Mody-Dick in the late 1840s, has gone on the market for £9m. The five-bedroom, four-storey townhouse ...

Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre. Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre opens its 20th season opens with staged readings of Herman Melville’s classic, “Moby Dick,” in an original adaptation by Gary ...

Herman Melville’s Great American Novel, ‘Moby-Dick,’ Only Got Mixed Reviews When It First Hit Bookstores The now-beloved book, which centers on a sailor seeking revenge against a sperm whale ...

Herman Melville's Great American Novel, 'Moby-Dick,' Only Got Mixed Reviews When It First Hit Bookstores November 14, 2024 An Abandoned Merchant Ship Was Discovered Floating in the Atlantic in 1872.

In Gary Meitrott's “Moby Dick,” there's one element missing from Herman Melville's classic novel. In rehearsal Monday night, a roomful of men sang — stomped really — a sea shanty in unison. If you've ...