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Interview: Paul Collins on whether Melville borrowed the idea for "Moby Dick"

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From: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
Date: 20051224
Author:SCOTT SIMON

SCOTT SIMON
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
12-24-2005
Interview: Paul Collins on whether Melville borrowed the idea for "Moby Dick"

Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM

SCOTT SIMON, host:

Paul Collins has become our literary historian. This week he was browsing old books on eBay and came across a first-edition Herman Melville, 1894 copy of the novel "Redburn." One of the images the seller scanned to sell the book was the back page where the publisher, then Harper & Brothers, advertised other new titles, including "The Whale and His Captors," by a Reverend Henry Cheever. It's a ...

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