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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick follows the sailor Ishmael aboard the whaling ship Pequod, whose captain, Ahab, is obsessed with hunting the white whale that maimed him. Readers interested in classic literature and seafaring adventure will find much to explore here.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
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