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Herman Melville was an American novelist, writer, , and poet. He was born in August 1, 1819 in the United States of New York. He is best known for his novel . British author Maugham argues that Melville's "Moby-Dick" is the ten largest in the world literature classics. Melville is also known as the "Shakespeare of the United States ".

Early life

His path through life was hard. He was born into an American merchant family. His grandfather had taken part in the American War of Independence and had a certain effect in the community. But His father's bankruptcy led him a bad life. When he was 12 years old, his father was died. Three years later he had to drop out of school. Because a family circumstance was worse he had to seek a job to support himself and his family. He worked as a farmer, staff, teachers, seaman, Navy. He had tasted the sweets and bitters of life.

Travels in the Pacific (1841-1845)

In 1841, he became a seaman on the whaling ship. In the next 4 years, he went to many places in the world with the whaling ship, greatly widened horizon. Not only that, he and the other partners on the whaling ship, with the captain’s autocratic behavior to do a struggle. Because worked for riot and other reasons he was imprisoned. He had wandered to Tahiti Island and Mark Island in Texas, at a man-eating custom tribe lived for a period of time. Later, he joined the American warship "American", until 1844 when he landed in Boston, ending his own life at sea. These experiences provide a rich source material for his writing.

Retiring from the army

In 1845, he left the army and returned to American, started his writing life. The first novel Typee is based on his South Pacific's life. As his professional fortunes waned, he had difficulties at home. He died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate.

His first three books gained much contemporary attention but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.

When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. In 1919 the unfinished manuscript for his novella was discovered by his first biographer. He published a version in 1924 which was quickly acclaimed by notable British critics as another masterpiece of Melville's. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the .

Moby-Dick (The Whale)

Summary

It is considered to be one of the and a treasure of world . The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the , commanded by Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white . In a previous encounter, the whale