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Title: Moby Dick
Author(s): Herman Melville
Pages: 512
Publisher: Wildside Press
Publication date: 2004
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN-10: 0809567288
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Description: Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist and poet. During his lifetime, his early novels were popular, but his popularity declined later in his life. By the time of his death he had nearly been forgotten, but his masterpiece, Moby-Dick -- which was largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity at the time -- was "rediscovered" in the 20th century as a literary masterpiece. Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The novel describes the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale, Moby-Dick. The book's language is highly symbolic, and many themes run throughout the work. The narrator's reflections, along with complex descriptions of the grueling work of whaling and the personalities of his shipmates, are woven into a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Moby-Dick is often considered the epitome of American Romanticism. The novel frequently employs Shakespearean devices, including formal stage directions and extended soliloquies and asides. The novel was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18, 1851 as an expurgated three-volume edition entitled The Whale, then as a single volume by Harper and Brothers, as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, in New York on November 14, 1851. The first line of Chapter One ("Call me Ishmael.") is one of the most famous in American literature. Although the book initially received mostly negative reviews, Moby-Dick is now considered to be one of the greatest novels in the English language, and has secured Melville's reputation in the first rank of American writers.

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