Thursday 1 August 2019

200 years of Herman Melville

Melville was born on the first of August 1819, . He is most famous for writing the classic of whaling with religious overtones, Moby-Dick. He is also responsible for the extraordinary short story, Bartleby the Scrivener, which seems to prefigure so much twentieth century fiction, and the posthumously-published Billy Budd.

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