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Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet associated with the nineteenth-century American literary tradition. He wrote Moby-Dick, a novel centered on Ishmael's voyage aboard the Pequod and Captain Ahab's pursuit of a whale.

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Quotes by Herman Melville

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“Call me Ishmael.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

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Moby-Dick artwork

Book · 1851

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville narrated primarily by the sailor Ishmael. Its voyage aboard the Pequod becomes Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.

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