Captain Ahab’s Possession by Moby Dick
In Herman Melville’s classic, the major character Ahab is an old whale-man and captain of a ship called the Pequod. This Ahab hunts one special whale – the biggest and wildest white spermaceti, which has…
Tag: classic american literature
Christmas Shopping for Cormac McCarthy: A Reading Adventure
On November 28, I scoured a soon-to-be-closing bookstore for a copy of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. My second book club (yes, I attend multiple book clubs) had chosen it for our January meeting, so…