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1849. ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Mardi. ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Mardi’s Table of Contents. Mardi. ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
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1849 ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Mardi ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Mardi’sTable of Contents Mardi ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne foundMardi a rich book "with depths here and there that compel a man to swim for his life... so good that one scarcely pardons the writer for not having brooded long over it, so as to make it a great deal better." Parker, Hershel.Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. pp. 768. Mardi ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
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Mardi ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
So, if after all these fearful, fainting traces, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained;-yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals: and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do. Mardi, “Sailing On” (Chapter 169) Mardi ENGL 6330/7330: Major American Writers—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick