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Discerninghearts.com presents great works in Western literature with Joseph Pierce,

who is an internationally acclaimed author and literary scholar whose work explores the great

writers of Western literature through a Catholic and classical lens.

He has written numerous best-selling books on figures such as Shakespeare, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton,

Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and El Arbog. A frequent lecture and longtime contributor

to EWTN, he serves as visiting professor of literature at Ave Maria University and as editor

of St. Austin Review.

Great works in Western literature with Joseph Pierce.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

A sea adventure, a study of evil, and a cast of fascinating characters, including the crazed captain who is obsessed with hunting down the whale that maimed him.

Moby Dick is all of this, and more.

Based on the author's experience as a sailor, Herman Melville's probing look at the human

heart has been read and analyzed from every angle, including the most absurd. The tragic tale is

looked at afresh in the Ignatius' critical edition. We now begin our discussion on Herman Melville

and Moby Dick.

Joseph, thank you so much for joining me.

Oh, it's fun and fine as always.

We're going to be talking about such an American classic, Moby Dick, yet its author, Herman Milville, would die in what we might call obscurity.

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