The 100 best novels: No 17 – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
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First, far more unmarked than acknowledged quotations occur, some favorites even numerous times throughout his whole body of work, taking on the nature of refrains. His wife's opinion of his financial conduct is unknown. From late to , he embarked upon three lecture tours, [] and spoke at lyceums , chiefly on Roman statuary and sightseeing in Rome. The epistemological quest and the transcendental quest for love and belief are consequently sullied by the erotic. One of the central characters, Rolfe, is similar to Melville in his younger days, a seeker and adventurer, while the reclusive Vine is loosely based on Hawthorne, who had died twelve years before. Suicide Life Threat Behav. He also suffered from rheumatism.