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Ahab's Wife

2009-10-06 Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 691/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ahab's Wife by : Sena Jeter Naslund

Download or read book Ahab's Wife written by Sena Jeter Naslund. This book was released on 2009-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a portrait of a real and loving marriage, Ahab's Wife gives new perspective on the American experience. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Captain Ahab Had a Wife

2014-02-01 History
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Release : 2014-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Captain Ahab Had a Wife by : Lisa Norling

Download or read book Captain Ahab Had a Wife written by Lisa Norling. This book was released on 2014-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.

Sherlock in Love

2001-05-08 Fiction
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Release : 2001-05-08
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 448/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sherlock in Love by : Sena Jeter Naslund

Download or read book Sherlock in Love written by Sena Jeter Naslund. This book was released on 2001-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Sherlock Homes come into possession of a true Stardivarius? Who was the one true love of the great detective's life? And what shattering disappointment left the detective with feelings of overwhelming melancholy? As Holme's great friend, Dr. Watson, sets out to answer these questions and recount the thrilling "lost" adventure of Holmes's attempt to rescue the love of his life from a mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, his own life is threatened by a figure in a familiar Inverness coat and deerstalker cap. In this extraordinary novel, Sena Jeter Naslund, author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Ahab's Wife, brilliantly reweaves the colorfully cryptic, fog-enshrouded world of Sherlock in Love is at once a rewarding entertainment and a remarkable homage to the greatest sleuth in literature.

Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette

2006-10-03 Fiction
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Release : 2006-10-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette by : Sena Jeter Naslund

Download or read book Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette written by Sena Jeter Naslund. This book was released on 2006-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Ahabs Wife" and "Four Spirits" comes her most astonishingwork yet--a portrait of a young queen called Marie Antoinette.

Why Read Moby-Dick?

2013-09-24 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2013-09-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Why Read Moby-Dick? by : Nathaniel Philbrick

Download or read book Why Read Moby-Dick? written by Nathaniel Philbrick. This book was released on 2013-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book Award–winning bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick brings a sailor’s eye and an adventurer’s passion to unfolding the story behind an epic American journey. He skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious enthusiasm…”—New York Times Book Review

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