Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · Moby-Dick, Extracts · block 90
Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1778.Read in context ›
Herman Melville · 1851
Project Gutenberg #15, credited to Eugene F. Irey; updated 10 June 2026. Based on the first American edition, Harper & Brothers, 1851, according to the source catalog.
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