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Moby Dick Ranked With King Lear in Melville Tribute
New York notes that Herman Melville's Moby Dick, written at age 31 in Pittsfield, is praised as towering American fiction on par with King Lear and Dostoyevsky. Ishmael emerges as Melville’s central voice, championing Nantucketers while the novel itself defies romanticism, ends tragically, and faced mixed critical reception.
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Nantucket
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Herman Melville
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Melville
Acushnet
New Bedford
Moby Dick
Spouter-Inn
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Ahab
Dostoyevsky
Poe
Mark Twain
Henry James