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The Town-Ho's Story

Herman Melville

First published October 1851
Type Short Fiction

The story of a mutiny aboard the <i>Town-Ho</i>, of the death of the chief mutineer's greatest enemy in the teeth of the whale Moby-Dick, and of the escape of the mutineer.

A chapter from Moby-Dick, in which a story is told. There is nothing supernatural in this story except for the ambiguous intervention of the possibly-unnatural whale.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1851 Harper's Magazine, October 1851 Harper & Brothers MAGAZINE
1930 American Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century J. M. Dent & Sons Anthology |6
1946 Cover The Blue Flower: Best Stories of the Romanticists Roy Publishers Anthology 647
1984 Cover Ochii panterei: Proză fantastică americană, Vol. 2 Editura Minerva Anthology 7