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Title: The Town-Ho's Story Title Record # 2254646
Author: Herman Melville
Date: 1851-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Language: English
Note: A chapter from Moby-Dick, in which a story is told. There is nothing supernatural in this story except for the ambiguous intervention of the possibly-unnatural whale.
Synopsis: The story of a mutiny aboard the Town-Ho, of the death of the chief mutineer's greatest enemy in the teeth of the whale Moby-Dick, and of the escape of the mutineer.
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1851 The "Town-Ho's" Story
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1984Translated by Maria-Ana Tupan
Romanian Istoria balenierei "Town-Ho"

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Harper's Magazine, October 1851 1851-10-00 ed. Editors of Harper's Magazine Harper & Brothers      
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
American Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century 1930-00-00 ed. John Cournos J. M. Dent & Sons     372
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Blue Flower: Best Stories of the Romanticists 1946-00-00 ed. Hermann Kesten Roy Publishers  
$5.00?$: US dollar
xviii+
675
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Ochii panterei: Proză fantastică americană, Vol. 2?Ochii panterei: Proza fantastica americana, Vol. 2
1984-00-00 ed. Maria-Ana Tupan Editura Minerva (
Biblioteca pentru toți?Biblioteca pentru totsi
Biblioteca pentru toti
#1178)
    256
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth A. Robert Birmelin  
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