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“Mr. Melville has woven around this cumbrous bulk of romance, a large and interesting web of narrative, information, and sketches of character and scenery, in a quaint though interesting style, and with an easy, rollicking freedom of language.
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— November 17, 1851
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- ✅ Victorian vocabulary — obsolete words and nautical terms defined inline
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