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11/14/2007, 07:12 AM
Nov. 14, 1851: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick published.
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Herman Melville.
156 years ago, on this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York. Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: "Call me Ishmael." Initially, though, the book about Captain Ahab and his quest for a giant white whale was a flop.
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Some health department guy's attempt at a Melville-inspired health message. For pasting inside restroom stalls
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Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819 and as a young man spent time in the merchant marine, the U.S. Navy and on a whaling ship in the South Seas. In 1846, he published his first novel, Typee, a romantic adventure based on his experiences with scantily-clad wahinis in Polynesia.
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The book was a success and a sequel, Omoo, was published in 1847.
Three more novels followed, with mixed critical and commercial results. Melville's sixth book, Moby-Dick, was first published in October 1951 in London, in three volumes titled The Whale, and then in the U.S. a month later.
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Melville had promised his publisher an adventure story similar to his popular earlier works, but instead, Moby-Dick was a tragic epic, influenced in part by Melville's friend and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, neighbor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novels include The Scarlet Letter.
After Moby-Dick's disappointing reception, Melville continued to produce novels, short stories (Bartleby) and poetry, but writing wasn't paying the bills so in 1865 he returned to New York to work as a customs inspector, a job he held for 20 years.
Melville died in 1891, largely forgotten by the literary world. By the 1920s, scholars had rediscovered his work, particularly Moby-Dick, which would eventually become a staple of high school reading lists across the United States. Billy Budd, Melville's final novel, was published in 1924, 33years after Melville's death.
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Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York
Postscript:
If we win out, we'll get to hunt our own White Whale in San Antonio.
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http://aycu11.webshots.com/image/34010/2003444198602754105_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003444198602754105)
Herman Melville.
156 years ago, on this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York. Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: "Call me Ishmael." Initially, though, the book about Captain Ahab and his quest for a giant white whale was a flop.
http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/34432/2003460934172869316_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003460934172869316)
Some health department guy's attempt at a Melville-inspired health message. For pasting inside restroom stalls
http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/32363/2003470765181916066_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003470765181916066)
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819 and as a young man spent time in the merchant marine, the U.S. Navy and on a whaling ship in the South Seas. In 1846, he published his first novel, Typee, a romantic adventure based on his experiences with scantily-clad wahinis in Polynesia.
http://aycu10.webshots.com/image/33129/2003476824222441892_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003476824222441892)
http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/34432/2003496995498771921_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003496995498771921)
The book was a success and a sequel, Omoo, was published in 1847.
Three more novels followed, with mixed critical and commercial results. Melville's sixth book, Moby-Dick, was first published in October 1951 in London, in three volumes titled The Whale, and then in the U.S. a month later.
http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/32909/2003425579844129196_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003425579844129196)
Melville had promised his publisher an adventure story similar to his popular earlier works, but instead, Moby-Dick was a tragic epic, influenced in part by Melville's friend and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, neighbor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novels include The Scarlet Letter.
After Moby-Dick's disappointing reception, Melville continued to produce novels, short stories (Bartleby) and poetry, but writing wasn't paying the bills so in 1865 he returned to New York to work as a customs inspector, a job he held for 20 years.
Melville died in 1891, largely forgotten by the literary world. By the 1920s, scholars had rediscovered his work, particularly Moby-Dick, which would eventually become a staple of high school reading lists across the United States. Billy Budd, Melville's final novel, was published in 1924, 33years after Melville's death.
http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/34965/2003430872907133061_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003430872907133061)
http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/35605/2003493218467680633_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003493218467680633)
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York
Postscript:
If we win out, we'll get to hunt our own White Whale in San Antonio.
http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/34656/2003403531779186056_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003403531779186056)