Why Moby-Dick Nearly Ruined Herman Melville

On this episode of Our American Stories, today, Herman Melville sits firmly within the canon of American literature. His novel Moby-Dick is assigned in classrooms, quoted in essays, and ranked among the greatest classic novels of all time. But when Moby-Dick was first published in 1851, it was a massive commercial failure.

Our own Greg Hengler and others share the story of a man who was dirt poor for most of his life but is now considered America’s Shakespeare.

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