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... Fedallah from an article in the Spectator1 in which a summary of the Persian tale of Fedlallah and Zemroude is given ... Fedallah seems to be Arabic2 . Melville chose this myth because it offered him a parallel to the fact that in Moby ...
... Fedallah from an article in the Spectator1 in which a summary of the Persian tale of Fedlallah and Zemroude is given ... Fedallah seems to be Arabic2 . Melville chose this myth because it offered him a parallel to the fact that in Moby ...
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... Fedallah's face is thrown up like Ahab's , » eyeing the same sun with him « 33 , and when the corpusants appear during the typhoon Fedallah's mysterious pre- sence is again mentioned 34 . Simultaneously with the development of fire ...
... Fedallah's face is thrown up like Ahab's , » eyeing the same sun with him « 33 , and when the corpusants appear during the typhoon Fedallah's mysterious pre- sence is again mentioned 34 . Simultaneously with the development of fire ...
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... Fedallah the devil . In order to bring his pursuit to success- ful conclusion , Ahab makes contract with the devil , in which the captain is finally deceived . We learn again from Stubb about this contract . Flask asks : >> What's the ...
... Fedallah the devil . In order to bring his pursuit to success- ful conclusion , Ahab makes contract with the devil , in which the captain is finally deceived . We learn again from Stubb about this contract . Flask asks : >> What's the ...
Contents
List of Illustrations | 11 |
Reynolds Mocha Dick | 42 |
Newells Account | 55 |
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