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Dedication

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Melville dedicates the novel to Nathaniel Hawthorne as an act of admiration.

Why it matters

The dedication gives students a first clue that the book is not only a sea adventure. It belongs to a literary world interested in guilt, symbols, secrecy, and the pressure of hidden meanings.

In token

Of my admiration for his genius

This book is inscribed

Nathaniel Hawthorne .

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