October 18th

On this day – 18th October 1851 – Was the novel about Moby-Dick published 

The novel written by Herman Melville was first published under the title “The Whale”.  Moby-Dick is a white whale who destroyed the narrator of the novels ship and the novel gives a realistic description of whale-hunting. The novel was first published in London on the 18th of October in 1851, but it was a commercial failure. The book was published in the US in November the same year, but at the time of Melville death was the book out of publishing. It have in modern time gained popularity and it is today recognized as one of the Great Novels. 

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”