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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • during which he adopted the 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    American literature, and is featured in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry David Thoreau. Mount Greylock is part of an 11-mile-long...
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    Moby (redirect from Richard Melville Hall)
    though he is not directly related to Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Moby is distantly related to David Melville, inventor of the first United States-patented...
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  • Hershel Parker (category Herman Melville)
    of English and literature, noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville. Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University...
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    counted amongst his own close friends the Melvilles of Boston. In 1847, the budding author Herman Melville married the judge's stepdaughter, Elizabeth...
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  • is the African-American cabin-boy on the whaling-ship Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. When Pip falls overboard he is left stranded...
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    and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance"...
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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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