Witchflower Days: Moby Dick, Shrek, and Pippi

Monday, November 14, 2005

Moby Dick, Shrek, and Pippi

On this day in 1851, Harper & Brothers published Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, about a ship captain named Ahab who is obsessed with hunting the great white sperm whale that took his leg. The book had been published in Britain in October with the title The Whale; Melville's decision to change the... Sign in to see full entry.

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