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Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American author best known for the novel Moby-Dick (1851) and for short fiction such as "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853).

Born 1819 in New York City; first successes in the 1840s; Moby-Dick published 1851; "Bartleby, the Scrivener" published 1853; Billy Budd published posthumously. Died 1891.

DeBaser hosts a small set of appreciative and analytical reviews of Herman Melville's major works. Reviewers focus on Moby Dick's encyclopedic scope and Ahab's obsession, and on Bartleby's mystery and critique of bureaucratic life. Overall the coverage is admiring and interpretive. Recommended for readers of classic American literature.

For:Readers of classic literature, students, and critics interested in 19th-century American fiction

 Moby Dick is the quintessential American novel, a milestone that has inspired great writers like Faulkner and McCarthy, a literary monster that any passionate reader must eventually reckon with.

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