“Moby Dick, as a medium of information, cannot be found fault with.” — Anonymous Reviewer, 1851. ¤ BORN IN NEW YORK on August 1, 1819, Herman Melville achieved limited notoriety during his lifetime. After the financial success of his first two novels, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), subsequent writings were met with mixed, sometimes scathing […]
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