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The White Whale: Moby-Dick Illustrated
The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAt the time of Herman Melville’s death, in 1891, his novels had fallen into obscurity. Moby-Dick, his masterwork published in 1851, was out of print and unread. But in the 1920s, critical reassessments led to a “Melville revival.” This lecture surveys some of the famous and less well-known illustrated editions, artists’ books, and other visual interpretations, […]