Melville

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• "In the amazing book, Moby Dick, by the author Herman Melville, the author recounts his story of being at sea.

  The Whale (2022)

• Never forget Herman Melville, writes a ripping yarn about a big white whale which is summarily dismissed, and yet today, it is lugged around in the backpacks of every serious student of literature in the world.

  Cloud Atlas (2012)

• More from him later, but one little piece by Melville, because it's about you.

• "You should have gone to your friend Melville," I said, half as a joke.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I was like the guy in the Melville story: I would prefer not to.

  Fiction book (1998)

• "When they moved to New York," came the guide's voice, "Mrs. Elizabeth Melville decorated her room in white."

  Fiction book (2000)

• For me, it was Dickens, it was Hardy, it was Melville, it was Hawthorne.

  Big Think

• We publish primarily classic literary fiction in the tradition of William Faulkner and Herman Melville.

  Isn't She Great (2000)

• OK is glancing over Herman Melville's famous book about a whale, Moby Dick.

• It was like the salty exhale of the great white whale in Melville's classic tome.

  Cat Run (2011)

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Herman Melville

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An American writer who wrote novels and short stories, including Moby-Dick

uses the surname form instead of the full name

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