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Works of Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Chapters 1 - 9

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Melville, Herman

Melville, Herman
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Moby Dick: Chapters 1 - 9

Chapter I Loomings

"Call me Ishmael." With these three words, the narrator of Moby Dick
introduces himself rather mysteriously to the reader, and begins what is
probably the greatest sea-story ever written. Ishmael, a landsman (one who is
not habitually a sailor) from New York, tells us that "some years ago-never
mind how long precisely" he decided to go to sea to drive away a feeling of
melancholy and moodiness. This is his way of forgetting the difficulties of
life ashore. Let other men commit suicide if they can't face their ...

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