The original reviews of Melville's "Moby Dick"

Yesterday marked 170 years since Herman Melville’s best-known novel was published in England.

Known there as The Whale and in the US as Moby Dick, it came out to decidedly mixed reviews.

Literary Hub has excerpted several of these original reviews, some of which could’ve been written by a student angry at it being assigned reading …

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