Melville, Herman

In the literary classic Moby Diek, Herman Melville describes Ishmael s impressions of spermaceti, when he muses that the waxes discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine as I snuffed that uncontaminated aroma—literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets. ... 

In Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote that the whale men were... 

In Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote that the whale men were enveloped in whale lines, that each man relied on the others during moments of danger. 

Herman Melville wrote, He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. In an essay, describe how a mistake you made led to an important discovery. 

Original Neither Herman Melville, the inspired novelist, nor Miss Emily Dickinson, the spinster poetess of Amherst, gained fame or fortune in their lifetimes. 

Where can you find Shakespeare s complete works, Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, Louisa May Alcott s Little Women, and Herman Melville s Moby Dick If you thought of a bookstore or library, you re right, but did you know that you can also get them without ever leaving home These and over 14,000 other titles are available online at no charge through the University of Pennsylvania s On-Line Books Page (onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu). A smaller collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (also free ) is accessible at www.Bartleby.com. 

Amelia Earhart, Tony Bennett (Moon in Gemini) v0 Herman Melville, Magic Johnson, Martha Stewart (Moon in Sagittarius)... 

Adapted from Moby Dick by Herman Melville Ch. 134. Penguin Modern Classics, London, originally 1851. 

As we explored in Chapter 7, when you write essays it can be very difficult to know when and how to put in your own opinion. By contrast, a learning journal absolutely encourages you to do so. This can be empowering and can help you to be more confident about your own ideas. Be as bold or as tentative as you like. Here is an example, about the book Bartleby by Herman Melville (1991). 

David Mamet edited by Christopher Bigsby Thomas Mann edited by Ritchie Robertson Christopher Marlowe edited by Patrick Cheney Herman Melville edited by Robert S. Levine Arthur Miller edited by Christopher Bigsby (second edition)... 

MARK NEIMEYER, Maitrc de Conferences at the Universite de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), has published extensively on American literature and culture. His essays and reviews have appeared in Journal of American Studies and Revue Fran aise d Etudes Americaines. Currently, he is Associate Editor of the French Pleiade edition of the works of Herman Melville and is writing a book-length study of the Atlantic Cable. 

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville edited by Robert S. Levine... 

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects."—Herman Melville... 

Macromolecular (polymer) nomenclature has an almost 50-year history. As early as 1949 there existed a Subcommission on Nomenclature within the International Union of Pme and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC) imder the chairmanship of Maurice L. Huggins. The Subcommission was part of the lUPAC Commission on Macromolecules, chaired then by Herman F. Mark. Other notable pioneers in polymer science, Jan Joseph Hermans, Otto Kratky, Harry W. Melville, and George J. Smets, were members of the Commission. 

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