![]() Our study guide is designed to help teachers and students better understand the story, its historical context, and explore what makes it an epic tale. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public - was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick or, The Whale (1851) is one of the best works of American Literature. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. There is more than one author with this name By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public - was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. ![]() ![]() His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a. There is more than one author with this name Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. ![]()
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