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Moby Dick Club: Meeting 1: General Interest Meeting

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Learn more and gain context on the "All the History You Could Possibly Want" page, including:

  • Biographical information about Herman Melville
  • Whaling History

 

A Selected Timeline of Literature

1818 - Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1831 - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

1830 - The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith Jr.

1837 - The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Little Mermaid

1843 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

1844 - The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

1845 - Narrative of a Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

1847 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

1850 - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1851 – Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

1852 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

1855 - Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

1867 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Next Meeting: October 13-15

To read: Chapters 1-25

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