Herman Melville · 1851
Ishmael joins Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for the white whale aboard the Pequod. Read Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville page by page and explore…
The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.
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