Book Review: Melville:The Whale That Sank a Career

Scotland on Sunday › October 31, 2005

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Melville

Andrew Delbanco

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Book Review: Melville:The Whale That Sank a Career

Picador, GBP 25

IN TEHRAN, apparently, there is a popular kebab place called Moby Dick. In Ghent there is a Moby Dick Fun Pub, and according to Andrew Delbanco it is a brothel. Exactly how Professor Delbanco knows this is not made clear, but his biography of Herman Melville includes a photograph of the establishment, which certa...

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