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Moby-Dick
is a
novelle
bi American writer
Herman Melville
, published in 1851 during the period o the
American Renaissance
. Sailor
Ishmael
tells the story o the obsessive quest o
Ahab
, caiptain o the
whaler
the
Pequod
, for revenge on
Moby Dick
, the white whaul which on the previous whaulin voyage destroyed his ship an severed his leg at the knee. The novelle wis a commercial failur an oot o prent at the time o the author's daith in 1891, but during the 20t century, its reputation as a
Great American Novelle
wis established.
William Faulkner
confessed he wished he haed written it himsel,
[1]
an
D. H. Lawrence
cried it "ane o the strangest an maist wonderfu beuks in the warld", an "the greatest beuk o the sea ever written".
[2]
"Call me Ishmael" is amang warld leeteratur's maist famous openin sentences.
[3]
- ↑
Faulkner (1927)
- ↑
Lawrence (1923), 168
- ↑
Buell (2014), 367
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