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Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, was first published in 1851 as Moby-Dick; or The Whale. This vastly ambitious novel functions as a documentary of life at sea and a vast philosophical allegory of life in general. Moby-Dick received a lukewarm reception upon publication and remained largely ignored until the 1920s, when literary historians looking to construct an American literary tradition championed it. It is now considered both a seminal work about classic American themes, such as religion, fate, and economic expansion, and a radically experimental anachronism that anticipated Modernism in its outsized scope and mixture of forms.
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