"""Call me Ishmael"" are the opening words of which famous 19th century novel?"
Don't Call Me Ishmael Don't Call Me Ishmael Don't Call Me Ishmael is a young adult novel by Australian author Michael Gerard Bauer. It is about Ishmael Leseur, a 14-year-old boy, and his experiences in Year Nine of school. It won the 2008 award for children's literature at Writers' Week, Australia's oldest writers' festival. It was short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year award in the older reader category in 2007. In April 2018, Don't Call Me Ishmael: The Musical by Fin Taylor and Christopher Thompson, was premiered in Brisbane. His Year Nine teacher, Miss Tarango, tells the whole
Ishmael (novel) (published in 1992), "The Story of B" (1996), and "My Ishmael" (1997). Much of the chronology remains ambiguous in the former two, though is specified in much more detail in "My Ishmael". Ishmael (novel) Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and explores themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe. Largely framed as a Socratic conversation between two characters, "Ishmael" aims at exposing that several widely accepted assumptions of modern society, such as human supremacy, are actually cultural myths that produce catastrophic consequences for humankind and the environment.