Call Me Ishmael: A Study of Melville
London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First UK Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This is an extraordinary case-study of one of the world's great novels, Moby Dick. (Charles) Olson, raised among fishermen, follows Western culture to the Mediterranean with Homer; to the Atlantic with Dante; to the Pacific and the shores of Asia with Herman Melville, exploring the latter's religious conflicts on the road from a primitive American Israel back to the shallow..... More
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