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Lynne Ramsay is directing a new sci-fi film loosely based on Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The film will be called Mobius and will take place in space, rather than at sea, and “Mobius” is an alien instead of a whale. In the movie, a captain will take his crew on an ego-driven mission in […]
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville may be a literary classic, but at around 600 pages, rarely is it actually read. Now UK PM David Cameron, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry and Simon Callow – all fans of the book – are teaming up to record the book in its entirety. The project is the baby of author […]
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American author. Melville would gain fame in the 1840s, but it would be short lived and by his death, he was barely remembered. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick, which is unanimously considered to be a literary classic. However, interestingly enough, the book didn’t even sell out its […]