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Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer
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“What writer is more welcome than Herman Melville?... This book has all the attractiveness of any of its predecessors; in truth it possesses more of a witching interest, since the author’s fancy has taken in it a wilder play than ever before. It is ostensibly taken up with whales and whalers, but a vast variety of characters and subjects figure in it, all set off with an artistic effect that irresistibly captivates the attention. The author writes with the gusto of true genius, and it must be a torpid spirit indeed that is not enlivened with the raciness of his humor and the redolence of his imagination.
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— November 14, 1851
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- ✅ Victorian vocabulary — obsolete words and nautical terms defined inline
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