Author · 1819–1891

Herman Melville

American novelist and poet, largely unread in his own lifetime.

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Melville's 1851 whaling epic told from the deck of the Pequod. The brief covers the three days of the chase that end the book, the characters who live it, and why reading only the whale hunt means missing the long argument that precedes it.