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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moby-Dick | Author | Herman Melville | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Dewey Decimal | 813.3 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Genre | Adventure fiction | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Genre | epic | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Genre | sea story | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Genre | encyclopedic novel | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Language | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | LC Class | PZ3.M498 Mo3 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Pages | 635 (U.S. edition) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Publication date | October 18, 1851 (United Kingdom) November 14, 1851 (United States) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Publication place | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Publisher | Richard Bentley (United Kingdom) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Publisher | Harper & Brothers (United States) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | Text | Moby-Dick; or, The Whale at Wikisource | 1.00 | infobox |
| Moby-Dick | is a | letter Melville wrote to Richard Henry Dana Jr. on May 1 | 0.90 | text |
| Moby-Dick | is a | legitimate title for the book | 0.90 | text |
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