The Classics Book Club
Tue, Feb 04
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Read the second half of Melvin's Moby Dick If it's on your bucket list to read the classics, join your host Alison at Classics Club!
Time & Location
Feb 04, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Herman Melville's masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history--featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and notes by Tom Quirk.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature.
Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.