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Melville, Herman

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  1. A nineteenth-century American author best known for Moby Dick. In his writing, Melville drew on several adventurous years spent at sea.

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Melville, Herman, his "Israel Potter" referred to, 13.

From Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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