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Melville's Moby-Dick? stands as one of the very finest novels ever written. His Captain Ahab is one of the greatest characters in American fiction -- a Quaker sea captain obsessed with killing the mighty whale who has cost him one of his legs.
Melville's Moby Dick stands as one of the very finest novels ever written. His Captain Ahab is one of the greatest characters in American fiction -- a Quaker sea captain obsessed with killing the mighty whale who has cost him one of his legs.

Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. novelist, essayist, and poet.

Melville's Moby Dick stands as one of the very finest novels ever written. His Captain Ahab is one of the greatest characters in American fiction -- a Quaker sea captain obsessed with killing the mighty whale who has cost him one of his legs.

"Moby-Dick" was poorly received when first published.

Melville also wrote White-Jacket?, Typee, Omoo?, Pierre?, [The Confidence Man]? and many short stories and works of various genres.

Melville was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a New York City Customs agent.


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