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Literature & Fiction1851

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Editorial summary

Ishmael's voyage aboard the Pequod under the obsessed Captain Ahab. Encyclopedic in register — narrative, technical cetology, sermon, soliloquy — a stress-test corpus for long-context retrieval and genre-shift.

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#fiction#adventure#symbolism#long-form#narrative

Provenance

  • ✅ Source: Project Gutenberg
  • ✅ License: Public Domain (US)
  • ✅ Human-written (authored 1851)
  • ✅ Pre-generative-AI — no machine-generated content
  • 🔗 Original on Project Gutenberg