Moby Dick è il magazine del sabato mattina che mira a mettere a confronto, attorno ai grandi temi di cultura, politica, società, economia, ospiti di sensibilità e opinioni diverse, anche radicalmente contrapposte. Coglie momenti e tematiche di particolare rilievo e le pone al centro di una tavola rotonda per scandagliarne peculiarità e sfumature. Ma consente anche attraverso una particolare scelta editoriale di meglio conoscere le personalità stesse degli interlocutori invitati a dibattere.

A chapter by chapter breakdown of the greatest, weirdest American novel, "Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale." Theme song by Noam Hassenfeld.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Read by Doug Brown.

This is Ruby's Literature Corner. This episode we are talking about race, religion, and sexual orientation in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick."

After Peter Reads Moby Dick airs on rdo.tv/KRRC (Wednesdays, 4-5), I'll post recordings here. Summaries and other info will be posted on the show's Facebook page.

‘I have written a blasphemous book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible – and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child – or perhaps its immaculate conception – the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud ...

A computer reads a paragraph of Herman Melville's seminal work, Moby Dick.

“Call me Ishmael” is one of the most famous opening lines in American literature. With these words, opens one of the strangest and most gripping stories ever written about the sea and sea-faring. Moby Dick by Herman Melville is today considered one of the greatest novels written in America but paradoxically, it was a miserable failure when it first made its debut in 1851. Entitled Moby Dick or The Whale the book finally got its due after the author's death and is now regarded as a classic po ...