Herman Melville

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Adventure novel chronicling a sailor's escape and life among Pacific island natives

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Herman Melville
Herman Melville

Herman Melville wrote one of the greatest novels in the English language with Moby-Dick, a philosophical epic about obsession and the sea. Largely unappreciated in his lifetime, he was rediscovered in the twentieth century as a towering figure of American literature.

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