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| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1841/01/03 | Herman Melville | Work | Melville takes to the sea on the whaler ACUSHNET out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Melville signs up with captain Valentine Pease for a journey of four years. | New Bedford | Massachusetts | ||
| 1849/12/00 | Herman Melville | Visitor | Herman Melville visits the Hotel de Cluny, Paris. "just the house I should like to live in." HM | Hotel de Cluny and Palais des Thermes | Paris | ||
| 1850/08/05 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Guest | Taking refuge under overhanging rocks during the thunderstorm, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have a vigorous discussion which will influence Melville's new book, Moby-Dick. | Monument Mountain | Great Barrington, MA | Evert Duyckinck's Monument Picnic | |
| 1851/06/00 | Herman Melville | Author | By the end of the month, wearied with the long delay of printers and clearly under Hawthorne's influence, Herman Melville completes "Moby Dick". | Herman Melville House, Pittsfield | Pittsfield, MA | ||
| 1851/07/00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Mentor | In Melville's barn, Hawthorne and Melville sit in the hayloft for many long evenings discussing Melville's progress with "Moby Dick", 1850-1852. | Herman Melville House, Pittsfield | Pittsfield, MA | ||
| 1851/11/00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Life | In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Herman Melville presents an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. | Little Red Inn, Stockbridge | Stockbridge | ||
| 1851/11/00 | Herman Melville | Author | In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Herman Melville presents an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. | Little Red Inn, Stockbridge | Stockbridge | ||
| 1851/11/14 | Herman Melville | Author | "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville is published in the United States by Harper and Brothers. The book will receive mixed reviews. | ||||
| 1851/11/14 | Harper and Brothers | Publisher | "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville is published in the United States by Harper and Brothers. The book will receive mixed reviews. |
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| Particulars for Moby Dick (book): | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Era | Age of Sail | A period where trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships, lasting from the mid-16C to the mid-19C. | |
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Makrystoria | the longest form of narrative fiction, a very long novel | |
| Area of Significance | Marine Biology | ||
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Narrative Arts | Saga | a long detailed account | |
| Occupation | Sea Captain | ||
| Animals | Whale | ||
| Industry | Whaling | ||
| Information | |||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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