Herman Melvillein a sentence
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Describing something as someone's white whale is a reference to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick where the captain's obsession with getting the white whale is his undoing.
Herman Melville = U.S. writer best remembered for his novel Moby-Dick (1819-1891)
- Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island.† (source)
- Chaucer says so, as do John Bunyan, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, Tom Robbins, Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise.† (source)
- —HERMAN MELVILLE BUT, NO. NOT GHOSTS.† (source)
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick Max read the note several times before folding the paper again, careful to keep its original crease.† (source)
- Herman Melville.† (source)
- Or, if he preferred the nineteenth century, this same ox-cart driver could select Moby Dick by Herman Melville or The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.† (source)
- He read shelves of novels: all of Thackeray, all the stories of Poe and Hawthorne, and Herman Melville's Omoo and Typee, which he found at Gant's.† (source)
- Title: Billy Budd, Sailor (An inside narrative) Author: Herman Melville Chapter 1.† (source)
- MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY.† (source)