474 Herman Melville
The History of Literature
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Herman Melville's Life and Times
Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. He went to school at Columbia when he was a child. His most famous narrator, Ishmael, began Moby Dick in the chapter one Lumings section of his classic novel The Grapes of Wrath. In Kafka's story "The Goldilocks Variations," two novices bet on odds and evens but end up losing their entire budget for the day by picking numbers that don't come up often enough.
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