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Humanities Book Group

Moby-Dick
2024-11-07 19:00:00 2024-11-07 20:00:00 America/Denver Humanities Book Group Reading discussion on "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. Discussion led by: Vikki Deakin, PhD, WSU. Brigham City Library - Rooms 1&2 (Combined)

Thursday, November 07
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-07 19:00:00 2024-11-07 20:00:00 America/Denver Humanities Book Group Reading discussion on "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. Discussion led by: Vikki Deakin, PhD, WSU. Brigham City Library - Rooms 1&2 (Combined)

Brigham City Library

Rooms 1&2 (Combined)

Reading discussion on "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. Discussion led by: Vikki Deakin, PhD, WSU.

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Thursday, 7 Nov 2024, 7 p.m. – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Scholar: Vikki Deakin, PhD, WSU.

Moby-Dick
By Melville, Herman
Editor Blum, Hester
2022-08 - Oxford University Press, USA
9780198853695 CHECK CATALOG

"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this."

Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, …More

This program has received funding from Utah Humanities. Utah Humanities enriches our cultural, intellectual, and civic life by providing opportunities for all Utahns to explore life's most engaging questions and the wonders of the human experience.

AGE GROUP: | General | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | History | Book Group |

TAGS: | Humanities |

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