Moby-Dick
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod,
The cover of the first American edition of Moby-Dick, published in November 1851
Moby Dick attacking a whaling boat
The illustration of Queequeg in a 1902 edition
Moby Dick in a 1902 edition
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick ; Typee, a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sai
1870 portrait
An 1810 portrait of Melville's father, Allan Melvill, by John Rubens Smith, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In Melville's novel Pierre (1852), he fictionalized this painting as a portrait of Pierre's father.
A c. 1815 portrait of Melville's mother Maria Gansevoort Melville by Ezra Ames, now on display at the National Gallery of Art
Richard Tobias Greene, who jumped ship with Melville in the Marquesas Islands and is Toby in Typee, pictured in 1846