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IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria- a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili.
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- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Herman Melville
- First published
- 1926
- Pages
- 135
- Publisher
- Juventud, Penguin Books Ltd, Imprint Society
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English, Italian, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788806140229
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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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