On November 14, 1851, Moby-Dick is published. Now considered a great classic of American literature—with one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: “Call me Ishmael”—the book about Captain Ahab ...

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) is best-known as a novelist, but he wrote a great deal of poetry, especially in his later years. And perhaps not well known, he wrote the longest poem in American ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will kick off its 30th annual Moby-Dick Marathon weekend with a special dinner and lecture Jan ...