Also, in case the library didn’t explain this, in the US libraries often operate as local/regional systems, so sometimes you have to request a physical copy from another branch. During the pandemic, I temporarily lived in rural Michigan (for family reasons) and, working on a research fellowship, was able to find quite a few obscure titles through the regional cooperative.
The Arlington Central Library online catalog shows that it does have Moby Dick; all physical copies are currently checked out, but it's available as a downloadable ebook. Likewise The Piazza Tales and Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Typee, Omoo, Redburn, The Confidence-Man, White Jacket, and Israel Potter are available as ebooks, though not physical books.
If I fault them for anything, it's that Billy Budd is available only as an audiobook
You know you can get DC, MoCo, FFX Co., and Alexandria library cards from Arlington.
Oh interesting thank you
Also, in case the library didn’t explain this, in the US libraries often operate as local/regional systems, so sometimes you have to request a physical copy from another branch. During the pandemic, I temporarily lived in rural Michigan (for family reasons) and, working on a research fellowship, was able to find quite a few obscure titles through the regional cooperative.
Why the intrusive apostrophe (it’s) when it is the possessive form being used? I would expect better. A Hunter Powell.
Probably my typo?
Will was also able to write a wonderful book about baseball, Men at Work, because of his immersion in literature and keenly observant mind.
Although I find George Will’s ideas interesting, his stilted prose style is grating, which is a shame for someone so steeped in literature.
"its" subject, surely :-)
I loved The Conservative Sensibility. Then again, I’m basically a George Will conservative.
The Arlington Central Library online catalog shows that it does have Moby Dick; all physical copies are currently checked out, but it's available as a downloadable ebook. Likewise The Piazza Tales and Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Typee, Omoo, Redburn, The Confidence-Man, White Jacket, and Israel Potter are available as ebooks, though not physical books.
If I fault them for anything, it's that Billy Budd is available only as an audiobook
I want physical books! This is Melville!!