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The writing career of Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) peaked early, with his early novels, such as Typee becoming best sellers. By the mid-1850s his poularity declined sharply, and by the time he died he had been largely forgotten. Yet in time his novel Moby Dick came to be regarded as one of the finest works of American, and indeed world, literature, as was Billy Budd, which was not published until long after his death, in 1924.
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Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. Written from the perspective of a sailor called Ishmael, it tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby-Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on a previous voyage bit off his leg at the knee.

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