《白鯨》的作者

Herman Melville l819-1891 was born in Newyork City. Though both his parents came from well-to-
dofamilies, a family business failure and,soon after,the death of his father made it necessary for him to leave school at the age of 15.He worked as a clerk,a farmer and a teacher,before becoming a cabin boy on a ship.
His shipboard experience served as the basis for a semiautobiographical novel,Redburn...
In 1841Melvlle went to the South Seas on a whaling ship....
In 1850 MELVILLE moved to a farm in Massachusetts where Nathaniel Hawthorne was his neighbor.The latter soon became a confidant with whom Melville often discussed his work....

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