American Literature(12)

• 聖經裡的40

1. 洪水四十晝夜　
2. 摩西在埃及四十年，在曠野牧羊四十年　
3. 以色列人在曠野飄流四十年
4. 神給尼尼微人四十天悔改的機會　
5. 耶穌在曠野禁食四十晝夜
6. 主復活後在地四十天

•  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) 

 is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea-story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale. It initially received mixed reviews and at Melville's death in 1891 was remembered, if at all, as a children's sea adventure, but now is considered one of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American Romanticism.

•  Herman Melville(1819 –  1891) 

was an American writer of novels, short stories and poetry. His contributions to the Western canon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) about a clerk in a Wall Street office; and Billy Budd, Sailor, left unfinished at his death and published in 1924.

When he died in 1891, Melville was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.

• 「Starbucks」這個名字，來自美國作家梅爾‧維爾（Melville Herman）所寫的世界名著《白鯨記》（Moby Dick）裡那艘船上大副的名字史塔巴克（Starbuck）。