Moby Dickhead: or, the White Zombie Whale: He's a Really Big Dickhead

by Herman Melville, Kelly Jameson

Overview

EXHILARATING! A PARODY OF GINORMOUS PROPORTIONS! Moby Dick: or, the White Whale, was written by Herman Melville in 1851. Now considered a great American novel, it's ripe for zombification. The adventures of Fishpail aboard the randy sailing vessel P-God, commanded by a fellow called Captain Ascab, are heretofore set down as never before as the crew chases the big, fat, stinky, blubbery, white zombie whale that bit off Ascab's leg-and still hungers for his brain. Ascab is bent on revenge. Even zombie hermit crabs, undead sharks, too much Spaghetto, a sea of bad puns, foul language, and urbandictionary.com slang, cruel fart jokes, exploding gallbladders, cannibals, and parking tickets will not deter him. He will find Moby Dickhead and destroy him, because Moby Dickhead's a really big, undead dickhead. So quit your blubbering and read this classic tale. You know you've had it on your chum bucket list forever. So just do it. Now. Rated T.I., for Totally Immature

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479151486
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/02/2012
Pages:	714
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.43(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15