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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 widely considered one of the greatest American novels ever written. This epic tale follows the crew of the whaling ship Pequod as they pursue an enormous white sperm whale across the oceans. It wasn't until the “Melville Revival” of the 1920s that the novel began to be recognized as a masterpiece of American literature.

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