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The Times has not always given the writer his due. Here’s a look at how we covered him and his most famous novel, ‘Moby-Dick,’ over the past century or two.

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Here’s why we read Moby-Dick—for the first time? for the eleventh time?— because it’s the Great American Novel about now, in 2020 more than ever. The giant fish story from Herman Melville in 1850 holds ...

Moby-Dick; (1851), the most famous tale of whaling and the high seas ever written, was a commercial disaster. Its author, Herman Melville, made about $1,200 from the 3,200 total copies sold in his lifetime. It was a critical and popular failure, and readers didn't know what to make of its complex themes and erratic point of view. Like Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Emily

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Melville’s Meeting of the Minds on Monument Mountain - The Fine Books Blog

Jill Lepore on Herman Melville, who drew on far-flung voyages to create his masterpiece but could finish it only at his beloved Berkshire farm.

How often happens that many of us have "double dreams"? Between the things we do and the things we desire, between what we do and our day dreams. How

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Bookmarked: Maeve McEneny Johnson will be leading a free literary history walk of Albany October 4. Blurbage: The Capital Region is full of stories! ... Our guide Maeve McEneny Johnson brings us around the city of Albany and tells us about local literary connections including where Herman Melville may have

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was a 19th-century American author of novels, short stories and poetry. He is best known for his novel Moby Dick, published in 1851, and his short stories Bartleby the Scrivner...

On October 18, 1851 Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville was first published in London as "The Whale” Image: Final chase of Moby-Dick by I. W. Taber via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

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