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unusual facts about Moby Dick



Boardman Robinson

Robinson also illustrated several books, among these are editions of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1933), Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1941), and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1942).

Cincinnati Opera

2015 will see the reopening of Music Hall, along with Jake Heggie's Moby Dick.

Concept of the Corporation

Drucker biographer Jack Beatty referred to it as "a book about business the way Moby Dick is a book about whaling".

Enrique Breccia

He also drew several comic book adaptions of famous novels such as Till Eulenspiegel, Treasure Island and Moby Dick.

François Meyronnis

In 2009 Yannick Haenel and François Meyronnis published Prélude à la délivrance (Prelude to deliverance) gathering numerous conversations and essays about Varlam Shalamov, Paul Celan and the topic of resurrection in the novel Moby Dick.

Freddie Francis

Some of the films he worked on during this period include The Elusive Pimpernel (1950), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Beat the Devil (1953), and Moby Dick (1956); he was a frequent collaborator with cinematographers Christopher Challis (nine films) and Oswald Morris (five films).

Goober and the Ghost Chasers

The ghost of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick are haunting the old mansion on the cliff and it's up to Goober and the kids to interview them for their magazine.

Kennedy Goodkey

He also wrote and co-starred in The Beast of Bottomless Lake - a modern comic adaptation of Moby Dick starring David Nykl.

PAICO Classics

Paico Illustrated Classics was a series of Indian comic books featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad, published in the mid-1980s.


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Ariel Sands

Books that Sands mentions as influencing hers include The Story of O, Venus in Furs, Moby-Dick, The Man of Feeling, and The Emigrants.

Closet drama

The genre also influenced other forms of literature and theatre; the portions of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick that are in dialogue form are at least a casual allusion to closet drama.

Cornelius Mathews

American literary historian Perry Miller, writing in The Raven and the Whale, suggested that Herman Melville was influenced by Mathew's Behemoth when writing Moby-Dick.

Giorgio Federico Ghedini

Ghedini's most celebrated concert piece is Concerto dell'Albatro (Albatross Concerto) for violin, cello, piano, narrator and orchestra, which includes fragments from Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick in its final movement.

Her Brother

Ichikawa had been inspired by the photography for John Huston's 1956 adaptation of Moby-Dick.

James Wilcox

He was the subject of an article by James B. Stewart in The New Yorker's 1994 summer fiction issue; entitled "Moby Dick in Manhattan", it detailed his struggle to survive as a writer devoted purely to literary fiction.

John Amis

Amis' short career as a tenor began with a minor role in the 1967 recording of Bernard Herrmann's cantata Moby-Dick.

John Cleves Symmes, Jr.

Some think it was written as a satire of Symmes' ideas, and believe they identified the author as an early American writer named Nathaniel Ames who wrote other works, including one that might have served as the inspiration of Moby Dick.

Louis Zorich

In 1965, Zorich recorded and released an album on Folkways Records, entitled Moby Dick: Selections Read by Louis Zorich. One of Zorich's first major film roles was the Russian Constable in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof.

Macross Dynamite 7

Macross Dynamite 7 contains some allegorical references to Moby-Dick.

Mary Morrill

Mary was mentioned by name as a historical figure in Herman Melville's fictional Moby-Dick in chapter 24 which is entitled The Advocate.

Michael Drosnin

An article published in the "teaching aids" section of the Dartmouth College math department's "Chance" program, claims that Brendan McKay has found equidistant letter sequences (ELS's) in Moby Dick which approximate the alleged prediction of the assassination of Rabin.

Pequot Lakes, Minnesota

Herman Melville named his lead ship in his novel Moby-Dick as the Pequod.

ProFe D-8 Moby Dick

The aircraft is named for the great white whale of Herman Melville's novel of the same name and was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Recent examples include Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child and Other Astonishing Works (2009), Chasing Moby-Dick: Selected Works by Tony de los Reyes (2010), and Charles Garabedian: A Retrospective (2011).

Sirenoscincus mobydick

The scientific name Sirenoscincus mobydick consists of the pre-existing parent genus Sirenoscincus, and the name of the white sperm whale from the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling

They go to Las Vegas, and get mixed up with Ahab, who is hunting Moby-Dick, the pirate Captain goes mad, and the Prize ham plays a major part in the whole adventure.

Toward the Sea

The work is divided into three sections—The Night, Moby-Dick, and Cape Cod.