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Herman Melville

American novelist — author of Moby-Dick and Bartleby, the Scrivener — who died in obscurity but whose reputation was fully restored in the 1920s — whose work is now considered the pinnacle of American Romanticism.

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Moby Dick

Herman Melville's 1851 novel — narrated by Ishmael — following Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick — combining encyclopaedic whaling detail with philosophical meditation and tragedy — the supreme American novel.

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