Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance...
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Moby-Dick (category Novels by Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal...
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The bibliography of Herman Melville includes magazine articles, book reviews, other occasional writings, and 15 books. Of these, seven books were published...
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George Pollard Jr. (section Herman Melville)
Ahab, the whale-obsessed character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Pollard also appears as a character in Melville's Clarel. Various books and films have...
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known as the Herman Melville House, is a historic house museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was the home of American author Herman Melville during his...
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Herman Melville House may refer to: Arrowhead (Herman Melville House), in Pittsfield, Massachusetts Herman Melville House (Troy, New York) This disambiguation...
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fictional white sperm whale and the primary antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Melville based the whale on an albino whale of that period,...
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Captain Ahab is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship...
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adopted the nom de guerre (pseudonym) 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war...
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Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of...
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Billy Budd (category Novels by Herman Melville)
also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece...
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Bartleby, the Scrivener (category Short stories by Herman Melville)
Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December...
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renamed Melville in honor of American novelist Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick, which was published three years earlier, in 1851. Melville's 1846 novel...
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whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the...
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Queequeg is a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. The story outlines his royal, Polynesian descent, as well as his desire...
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ordeal. The tragedy attracted international attention, and inspired Herman Melville to write his 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. When Essex departed from Nantucket...
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reprised his role of Q in Spectre, the 24th Bond film, and played author Herman Melville in Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea. In 2017, Whishaw reprised...
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Herman Melville is a biography of the American author Herman Melville by Lewis Mumford, first published in 1929. Mumford, who felt a close affinity with...
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Typee (category Novels by Herman Melville)
Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel...
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the 1850s with her nearest neighbor in the Berkshires, the novelist Herman Melville. In 1983 Professor Michael Rogin of the University of California, Berkeley...
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only $94.3 million against a $100 million budget. In 1850, author Herman Melville visits innkeeper Thomas Nickerson, the last survivor of the sinking...
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Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company is named after the author Herman Melville. It has a reputation as an "activist press" and publisher of left-leaning...
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Arvin came to national attention with the publication in 1950 of Herman Melville, a critical biography of the novelist. It won the second annual National...
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Lewis Mumford (category Herman Melville)
and industrialization of the United States. Herman Melville (1929), which combined an account of Melville's life with an interpretive discussion of his...
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Raymond Weaver (category Herman Melville)
publishing Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic, the first full biography of American author Herman Melville (1819–1891) in 1921 and editing Melville's works...
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downfall. Herman Melville (ハーマン・メルビル, Hāman Merubiru) Voiced by: Takayuki Sugō (Japanese); John DeMita (English) Named after Herman Melville. An elder...
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impacted many notable novelists and poets over the years, including Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, and Maya Angelou, and continue to influence new authors...
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Moby-Dick (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville. While some characters only appear in the shore-based chapters at the beginning of the book, and others...
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Dickens (1849) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) The Brothers Karamazov...
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Omoo (category Novels by Herman Melville)
Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South...
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