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Sign in to Harper'sHerman Melville gave his young children back issues of Harper’s Magazine for Christmas. His first story for Harper’s appeared in the year-old periodical’s October 1851 issue—titled “The Town-Ho’s Story,” it constitutes the fifty-fourth chapter of Moby-Dick, which was published a month later to critical revilement and commercial disinterest. In the years immediately following the publication of Moby-Dick and the similarly received Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville supplied Harper’s with several more stories, three of which were about recovering from…
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