The Maldive Shark

The Maldive Shark

By
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
1854 • 64 pages

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Dark, nightmarish sea stories and poems inspired by Melville's adventures around the world's oceans in a whaler.

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Meh. So I read this to encourage me to re-read Moby Dick, but on this basis, I need other motivation!
This was a strange, disjoined sort of book. The poetry was never going to fly for me, but I had hopes for the text.

April 30, 2015

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