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quotation: Life is a voyage that’s homeward bound. Herman Melville (1819-1891)


Life is a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Herman Melville (1819-1891) Discuss

this day in the yesteryear: Melville’s Moby-Dick Published in the US (1851)


Melville’s Moby-Dick Published in the US (1851)

Inspired by his whaling experiences on the South Seas, Herman Melville penned Moby-Dick, the now famed tale of a deranged whaling captain’s obsessive voyage to find and destroy the great white whale to whom he lost his leg. The novel is at once an exciting sea story, a sociological critique of American prejudices, a repository of information about whaling, and a philosophical inquiry into the nature of good and evil. What may have inspired Melville to name his whale Moby-Dick? More… Discuss