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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

  Moby Dick is not just about a whale.  Melville: dear friend and admirer of Hawthorne, metaphysical muser, extraordinarily beautiful and peculiarly Amrrican writer, and precursor to Conrad and Faulkner.

I share a passage from Israel Potter (1855) as a small example of his gift: "A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.  The ocean brims with natural griefs and tragedies; and into that watery immensity of terror, man's private grief is lost like a drop."

 

 

Typee complete online text

Moby Dick; or the Whale complete online text

"I and My Chimney" online text

 

(great authors main page)

 

List of Works

 

Typee

 

Omoo

 

Redburn

 

White-Jacket

 

Moby Dick (or the Whale)

 

Pierre (or the Ambiguities)

 

Israel Potter

 

The Confidence Man

 

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

 

 

 

 

 

 

(not a complete list)

 

 

 

(In a letter to Hawthorne 1851): "...Truth is the silliest thing under the sun.  Try to get a living by the Truth - and go to the Soup Societies...Why so?  Truth is ridiculous to men."

 

 

 

 

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

 

 

 

 

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