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“The only thing missing is Melville’s name—which appears nowhere on the cover, nor for that matter on the jacket spine, nor on the handsome silver-stamped binding. It is the kind of thing that authors notice—and no doubt explains Robert Frost’s joking allusion to the book that “everybody’s reading Moby Dick by Rockwell Kent.” (+)


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