How Moby-Dick became the Rosetta Stone of the American republic
Howard A. Rodman
In his own era, Melville’s work received at best a mixed reception. Said the London Athenaeum of Moby-Dick, “This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact…The style of his… Read more »
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