We know Moby-Dick today as a great American classic. But for Herman Melville, it marked the decline of his successful writing career. After writing it, he plummeted into obscurity, dying without anyone even knowing his name.


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MELVILLE BOOKS IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION:
(These are Amazon Affiliate links, If you buy anything through these it will support the channel):


These are links to physical books, but it seems you can get a lot of these on kindle for very cheap or even free!

📚 Typee
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📚 Omoo
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📚 Typee, Omoo, and Mardi (There's not really a great edition of just Mardi)
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📚 Redburn
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📚Redburn, White-Jacket, and Mobi-Dick
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📚 Moby-Dick
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📚 Pierre
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📚 Israel Potter
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📚 The Confidence-Man
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📚 Billy Budd, Bartleby, and other Stories
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FURTHER READING:
Here's some links to articles and things referenced in the video:

📰 Article in The Nation by Raymond Weaver
www.scribd.com/document/284446409/October-18-1851\

📰 Southern Quarterly Review
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?cc=mo…

📰 Athenaeum Review
archive.org/details/sim_athenaeum-uk_1851-10-25_12…

📰 American Review System
blog.loa.org/2010/10/october-18-1851-melvilles-mob…


Along with some articles I read for research:

🌐 This website is by far the most comprehensive resource I found for all things Melville!
www.melville.org/melville.htm#Writings

📰 101 Masterpieces: Moby-Dick
www.mentalfloss.com/article/56372/101-masterpieces…

📰 The Life of Herman Melville
www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/whali….


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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:46 About Moby Dick
01:06 Melville's Career Before Moby Dick
01:29 Writing Moby Dick
01:51 Publishing/British Reception
03:38 American Reception
04:06 Melville Money Problems
04:23 Pierre
04:48 Israel Potter
05:02 Quitting Writing/Death
05:34 Melville Revival
06:21 Moby Dick Legacy

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